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THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)

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Lot 205 | THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)
THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)

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signed and dated indistinctly 'Cole 1829' (lower right)—signed and dated again 'T Cole/1828' (on the reverse)

oil on panel

24 ¾ x 35 in. (62.9 x 88.9 cm.)

Painted in 1828-29.





Provenance

The artist.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, New York, commissioned from the above, 1828-29.

Private collection, by descent from the above.

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1986.

Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1988.



Literature

T. Cole, "List of Pictures Painted by Me," Thomas Cole Papers, New York State Library.

New-York Mirror, May 16, 1829, p. 354.

E.C. Parry III, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination, Newark, Delaware, 1988, pp. 40, 93.

C. Robinson, Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature, exhibition catalogue, Albany, New York, 1993, p. 63.

F. Kelly "Lake Winnepesaukee," in T.K. Groft, M.A. Mackay, Albany Institute of History and Art: 200 Years of Collecting, exhibition catalogue, Albany, New York, 1998, p. 82.

M.A. Erhardt, E. Broun, The Norma Lee and Martin Funger Art Collection, Lunenberg, Vermont, 1999, pp. 10-11, illustrated.

K.J. Myers, “Thomas Cole and the Popularization of Landscape Experience in the United States: 1825-1829,” in Marco Goldin ed., America!: Storie di pittura dal Nuovo Mondo, exhibition catalogue, Brescia, Italy, 2007, p. 73.

D.I. Spanagel, Dewitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York, Baltimore, Maryland, 2014, p. 248n9.

H.D. Peck, Thomas Cole's Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2019, pp. 38, 47, 54-62, 67, 82, 118, 145, figs. 2.7, 3.10-12, 4.18, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, 4th Annual Exhibition, May 1829, no. 13.

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Views and Visions: American Landscape Before 1830, September 21, 1986-March 29, 1987, pp. 183, 185, 245, pl. 136, illustrated.

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Summits II: Outstanding American Paintings 1828-1985, April 18-May 9, 1987, n.p., no. 1, illustrated.
Artist:Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Auction house category:Paintings
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