Study for "Catskill Creek"
Thomas Cole · c. 1844/1845 · oil on wood
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About this picture
Study for "Catskill Creek" is a public-domain painting by Thomas Cole, dated c. 1844/1845. Oil on wood. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Study for "Catskill Creek"” (c. 1844/1845) 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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