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THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)

Lot 206
23.01.2025 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 206 | THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)
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THOMAS COLE (1801-1848)
Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire
signed and dated 'T. Cole./1827' (lower center)
oil on gessoed panel
23 x 32 ½ in. (58.4 x 82.6 cm.)
Painted in 1827.




Provenance

The artist.
James Abraham Hillhouse, New Haven, Connecticut, acquired from the above.
Cornelia Hillhouse, wife of the above.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
John Marshall Phillips, New Haven, Connecticut, 1942.
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York.
IBM Collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1943.
Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1995, lot 152, sold by the above.
Private collection, Detroit, Michigan.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Private collection, 2005.
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009.



Literature

J.B. McNulty, The Correspondence of Thomas Cole and Daniel Wadsworth, Hartford, Connecticut, 1938, p. 32.
E.C. Parry, III, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination, Newark, Delaware, 1988, pp. 59, 67, pl. 4 illustrated.
W.H. Truettner, A. Wallach, eds., Thomas Cole: Landscape into History, Washington D.C., 1994, p. 58, no. 66, illustrated (as Mount Chocorua).



Exhibited

New York, National Academy of Design, Third Annual Exhibition, 1828, no. 48 (as View of Carroway Peak, New Hampshire).
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale College, Works of Art Exhibited in the Alumni Building, Yale College, 1858, p. 10, no. 141 (as Coroway [sic] Peak, near Conway, N.H.).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, November 17, 1943-February 6, 1944, p. 132, no. 52.
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, 60 Americans Since 1800, November 19-December 6, 1946, n.p., no. 4, illustrated (as Mt. Chocorua).
New York, IBM, Thirty Americans: 1700-1900, October 1948-November 1951.
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Painters of the United States: 1720-1920, November 15-December 8, 1951, n.p., no. 26.
(Probably) Riverdale, New York, Riverdale Neighborhood Association, January-February 1952.
(Probably) Endicott, New York, Harpur College, May 1957.
(Probably) Brussels, Belgium, American Embassy, U.S. State Department Art in Embassies Program, October 1957-October 1959.
(Probably) New York, Overseas Press Club of America, December 1959-February 1960.
New York, IBM, Eighteen Painters of the Nineteenth Century, 1967.
New York, IBM, American Painters of the Nineteenth Century, 1969-1971.
(Probably) San Jose, California, San Jose Museum of Art, America III: The Hudson River School, September-December 1974.
(Probably) Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, October 1978.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting and the American Site, June 5-July 31, 1980, p. 15, no. 12.
New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Images: Selections from the IBM Collection, June-July 1984.
Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, January 20-November 11, 2009, on loan.
Catskill, New York, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Master, Mentor, Master: Thomas Cole & Frederic Church, April 30-November 2, 2014.
Artist:Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Auction house category:Paintings
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