A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)
Thomas Cole · 1839 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) is a public-domain painting by Thomas Cole, dated 1839. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)” (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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