New England Scenery
Thomas Cole · 1839 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
New England Scenery is a public-domain painting by Thomas Cole, dated 1839. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“New England Scenery” (1839) is either a Catskill view or one of Cole’s allegorical landscapes, where the scenery is also a story about the course of a civilization.
About the artist
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was the founder of the Hudson River School. He painted the Catskills and also allegorical series about the course of empires, using landscape as a moral story.
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