Thomas Cole's Journey
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Atlantic Crossings
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Tim Barringer; With contributions by Dorothy Mahon, Christopher Riopelle, and Shannon Vittoria
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A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole’s Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832–36—notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire—as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole’s passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole’s influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha.
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole’s Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832–36—notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire—as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole’s passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole’s influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(01/30/18–05/13/18)
National Gallery, London
(06/11/18–10/07/18)
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture in The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art at Yale University. Dorothy Mahon is conservator in the Department of Paintings Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Christopher Riopelle is curator of post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery, London. Shannon Vittoria is research assistant in The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(01/30/18–05/13/18)
National Gallery, London
(06/11/18–10/07/18)
“This fine publication, produced to the high standards of reproduction and design for which Yale University Press art books have long being known mark a significant development in Cole scholarship and will surely help to establish him internationally as a major artistic figure with a message still relevant for today.” —William Vaughan, The Art Newspaper
Finalist for the 2019 PROSE awards, art exhibitions category
ISBN: 9781588396402
Publication Date: February 6, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Publication Date: February 6, 2018
Publishing Partner: Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
288 pages, 9 1/2 x 11
254 color + b/w illus.
254 color + b/w illus.
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