Thomas Cole, View from Mt. Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm — The Oxbow (painting, 1836)
Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was born in Lancashire, England, and immigrated to the United States in 1818. Cole is famous for founding the Hudson River school, an artistic movement that was influenced by romanticism and that tried to capture the beauty of the Hudson River valley.
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
One of Thomas Cole’s most well-known paintings, The Oxbow (as it is commonly called) is regarded as a masterpiece of American romantic landscape painting.
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836, oil on canvas, 51.5" × 76", Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA/Photo © Boltin Picture Library/The Bridgeman Art Library