Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole is a central figure of American landscape painting, whose canvases and drawings move between rugged wilderness, pastoral vistas and allegorical scenery. The ten works gathered here are dominated by oil on canvas, alongside graphite drawings and a few mixed-media sheets, and they span the years from 1832 to 1846, with impressions up to that later date. Subjects range from mountain fords and shipwrecks to the celebrated view of the Oxbow and the symbolic Titan's Goblet.

10 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Landscape with Tower (from McGuire Scrapbook)

· Graphite on off-white wove paper

Shipwreck

· Graphite on off-white wove paper

A View near Tivoli (Morning)

1832 · Oil on canvas

The Titan's Goblet

1833 · Oil on canvas

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

1836 · Oil on canvas

Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)

1836 · Oil and pencil on composition board

View on the Catskill—Early Autumn

1836–37 · Oil on canvas

The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death Thirst

1843 · Graphite and white gouache on green wove paper

The Mountain Ford

1846 · Oil on canvas

Clouds

ca. 1838 · Oil on paper laid down on canvas