Thomas Cole

**Thomas Cole** (1 Şubat 1801, Bolton - 11 Şubat 1848, New York), manzara ve tarih resimleriyle tanınan bir Anglo-Amerikan ressamdı. 19. yüzyılın en büyük Amerikan ressamlarından biri ve 19. yüzyılın ortalarında gelişen bir Amerikan sanat hareketi olan Hudson Nehri Ekolü'nün kurucusu olarak kabul edilir. Cole'un eserleri, Amerikan vahşi doğasını romantik bir şekilde tasvir etmesiyle tanınır.

## İlk yılları ve eğitimi
1801'de Bolton le Moors, Lancashire'da doğan Cole, ailesiyle birlikte 1818'de Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ne göç etti ve Steubenville, Ohio'ya yerleşti. Cole, 22 yaşında Philadelphia'ya ve daha sonra 1825'te New York'taki Catskill'e taşındı ve 1848'e kadar karısı ve çocuklarıyla birlikte yaşadı.

Cole erkenden bir oymacı olarak iş buldu. Büyük ölçüde kitaplara güvenerek ve diğer sanatçıların çalışmalarını inceleyerek kendi kendini yetiştirdi. 1822'de Cole portre ressamı olarak çalışmaya başladı ve daha sonra yavaş yavaş odağını manzaraya kaydırdı.

## Tabloları

New York'ta Cole, George W. Bruen'e beş tablo sattı.

## Kişisel hayatı
1827'den sonra Cole, New York'taki Catskill kasabasındaki Cedar Grove adlı çiftlikte bir atölye kurdu. Çalışmalarının önemli bir bölümünü bu atölyede boyadı.
## Ölümü
11 Şubat 1848 tarihinde Plörezi nedeniyle 47 yaşında ölmüştür.

## Seçilmiş eserleri


File:Scene-from-the-last-of-the-mohicans-cora-kneeling-at-the-feet-of-tanemund-1827.jpg|Imaginary scene from *[[The Last of the Mohicans]]* (1827), Wadsworth Atheneum
File:Cole Thomas Expulsion from the Garden of Eden 1828.jpg|*[[Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Cole)|Expulsion from the Garden of Eden]]* (1828), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
File:Thomas Cole - The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge - Google Art Project.jpg|*[[The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge]]* (1829), Smithsonian American Art Museum
File:Distant View of Niagara Falls 1830 Thomas Cole.jpg|*Distant View of Niagara Falls* (1830), Art Institute of Chicago
File:Cole Thomas Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower 1832-36.jpg|*Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower* (1832–36), Albany Institute of History & Art
File:Cole Thomas The Course of Empire The Savage State 1836.jpg|*The Course of Empire: The Savage State* (1836), New-York Historical Society
File:Cole Thomas The Consummation The Course of the Empire 1836.jpg|*The Course of Empire: Consummation* (1835–1836), New-York Historical Society
File:Cole Thomas The Course of Empire Desolation 1836.jpg|*The Course of Empire: Desolation* (1836), New-York Historical Society
File:Thomas Cole - Architect’s Dream - Google Art Project.jpg|*[[The Architect's Dream]]* (1840), Toledo Museum of Art
File:The Fountain of Vaucluse - Cole.jpg|*The Fountain of Vaucluse* (1841), Dallas Museum of Art
File:Cole Thomas The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching 1843.jpg|*Temple of Segesta* (1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
File:Thomas Cole - A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning (1844) - Google Art Project.jpg|*A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning* (&nbsp;1844), Brooklyn Museum
File:Cole Thomas Il Penseroso 1845.jpg|*[[Il Penseroso]]* (1845), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
File:Home in the Woods 1847 Thomas Cole.jpeg|*Home in the Woods* (1847), Reynolda House Museum of American Art
File:Thomas Cole - Prometheus Bound - Google Art Project.jpg|*[[Prometheus Bound (Thomas Cole)|Prometheus Bound]]* (1847), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 
Dosya:Cole_Thomas_The_Oxbow_(The_Connecticut_River_near_Northampton_1836).jpg|''The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton)'' (1836)
Dosya:EdentoEmpire.gif|alt=Eden to Empire|*[[The Course of Empire (tablo)|The Course of Empire]]* (1833–1836), this  animated image shows all five paintings in the series as separate frames


## Ayrıca bakınız

* Thomas Cole'un tabloları listesi

## Kaynakça
**Özel**

**Genel**

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## Dış bağlantılar

* Cedar Grove – The Thomas Cole National Historical Site in Catskill, NY 
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* Works by Thomas Cole at the Cincinnati Art Museum
* White Mountain paintings by Thomas Cole 
* Reynolda House Museum of American Art
* Information about Thomas Cole can be found in the Thomas Cole Collection, which contains correspondence, financial and legal documents, clippings, exhibition catalogs, poems related to him and his family, in the Albany Institute of History & Art Library.
* Thomas A. Cole Papers, 1821–1863 . This finding aid contains biographical information about Cole and describes the collection of his papers (correspondence, journals, notebooks, essays and poetry) held by the New York State Library.
* Thomas Cole's Journal, 1834–1848. The journal, which was digitized by the New York State Library, contains scattered handwritten entries from November 5, 1834, through February 1, 1848.
* ''Art and the empire city: New York, 1825–1861'' , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Thomas Cole (see index)
* ''American paradise: the world of the Hudson River school'' , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Thomas Cole (see index)
* ''Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford'' , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains paintings by and material on Cole (see index)
* ''American Scenery'', by Thomas Cole  Full text with introduction