Temple of Juno, Agrigentum
Thomas Cole
1842
Medium
graphite and white chalk on gray laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 26.5 × 37.3 cm (10 7/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1981.4.3
About the Artist
Thomas Cole · 1801–1848
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was an English-born American painter who founded the Hudson River School, the first major American art movement, and became the most influential landscape painter in nineteenth-century American art. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling first in Ohio before moving to Philadelphia and then New York, where he ...