The Oxbow

Thomas Cole

Cole was a leading figure in the Hudson River school of landscape painting. A constant theme in his work, as in this painting, is the sharp contrast between widerness and advancing "civilization."

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Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836, by permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. under the Images for Academic Publishing initiative. Reproduction of any kind is prohibited without express written permission in advance from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.