The Cross in the Wilderness
Thomas Cole · c. 1844 · graphite with gray-green, green-brown, and white chalk on gray paper
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About this picture
The Cross in the Wilderness is a public-domain drawing by Thomas Cole, dated c. 1844. Graphite with gray-green, green-brown, and white chalk on gray paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Cross in the Wilderness” (c. 1844) 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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