Research Paper On Thomas Cole The Oxbow

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With his passion for painting, his admiration of landscapes and influence as a teacher, Thomas Cole was a proficient Romanticism artist. Undoubtedly because of his extensive traveling and studying various landscapes, Cole is one of the most well known landscape artist in America. Cole painted many landscape paintings, one of these being The Oxbow. Established by Cole the Hudson River School of Romantic Landscapes was created to teach students about painting landscapes. As American nature became realized to be beautiful and divine more and more artists commenced painting the eminent nature that God created for them.
As Cole traveled the world, he came to see nature worthy of painting and wanted to share this love with others. After being born …show more content…

A drastic change happened between 1825 and 1830 when before this time nature was only admired when it was tamed into gardens or plantations. The natural wonders of America became boasted about as some of the most divine landscapes in the world. As Emerson and Thoreau both believed, “God inhabited nature, which dignified landscapes as a portrait of the face of God” (Strickland 81). Leading to the Hudson River School American landscapes became the “artist’s inspiration” (Strickland 81). The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity which included a group of New York City painters under the influence of Thomas Cole, said to be the founder, or father of the school. After Cole’s death, his older contemporary Asher B. Durand was acknowledged as the next leader (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Some of the artists of this “first native school of painting” were Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett and Thomas Doughty. Concentrating only on landscapes, they masterfully painted scenes of the Hudson River, showing the “Mood of worshipful wonder” (Strickland 81). Using “realistic detail” and “idealized composition” the artists of the Hudson River School created a new form of romantic realism (Strickland …show more content…

Throughout his life and while traveling abroad, Cole continually studied nature in order to paint it perfectly. In his painting, The Oxbow, he utilized these skills of painting he learned to create a stunning landscape. As the founder of the Hudson River school Cole influenced many students to follow in his own footsteps. Painting trees, fields and skies Thomas Cole is an artist who will be remembered for many years to

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