Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings and the History of Landscape Painting

In his lecture Tim will discuss an exhibition he is curating with colleagues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the National Gallery, London, which explores the life of the British born painter Thomas Cole.  Cole travelled to America aged 17 in 1819 and became the founder of American landscape painting. In 1829, he returned to England and met Constable and Turner, before visiting Italy and returning, once again, to the Hudson River valley. The impact of these Atlantic crossings has not hitherto been fully explored.

Image: Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (1836) Metropolitan Museum of Art