The Bridge of Fear
Thomas Cole
1801 to 1825
Medium
graphite and black crayon with gray wash on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 14.6 × 12.4 cm (5 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.) sheet: 23.7 × 18.7 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection
Accession Number
1979.20.17
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 ...