View on the Catskill—Early Autumn
Thomas Cole
1836–37
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
39 x 63 in. (99.1 x 160cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift in memory of Jonathan Sturges by his children, 1895
Accession Number
95.13.3
Tags
MountainsLandscapes
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 ...