Thomas Cole's journey
Subtitle: Atlantic crossings
By: Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Tim Barringer ; with Dorothy Mahon, Christopher Riopelle, and Shannon Vittoria
Contributors: Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, 1950- author; Barringer, T. J., author; Mahon, Dorothy, writer of suppelementary textual content; Riopelle, Christopher, writer of suppelementary textual content; Vittoria, Shannon, writer of supplementary textual content; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781588396402
Subjects: Influence; Exhibitions; English influences; Italian influences
Description: "Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is celebrated as the greatest American landscape artist of his generation. Though previous scholarship has emphasized the American aspects of his identity, never before has the British-born artist been presented as an international figure, in direct dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age. Thomas Cole's Journey emphasizes the artist's travels in England and Italy from 1829 to 1832 and his crucial interactions with such painters as Turner and Constable. Presenting the artist's most renowned paintings--The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire cycle (1834-36)--as the culmination of his European experiences and of his abiding passion for the American wilderness, this lavishly illustrated catalogue provides a new perspective on these cherished masterpieces. Four essays examine how Cole's first-hand knowledge of the British industrial revolution and his study of the Roman Empire positioned him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States, the ecological and economic changes then underway, and the dangers that faced the young nation"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with 'Thomas Cole's Journey : Atlantic Crossings' on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from January 30 through May 13, 2018, and at the National Gallery, London, from June 11 through October 7, 2018"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Cole's Atlantic Crossings  -- Tim Barringer; title: Manifesto for an American sublime : Thomas Cole's The oxbow  -- Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser; title: Thomas Cole and the landscape oil sketch  -- Christopher Riopelle; title: Thomas Cole's The oxbow and the consummation of empire : a technical comparison  -- Dorothy Mahon -- Catalogue.; title: Industrial England --; title: American wilderness --; title: London : imperial metropolis --; title: Italy : the grand tour --; title: American citizenship and consummation --; title: Cole's legacy --; title: Chronology -- Shannon Vittoria.