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Painter:
Cole, Thomas 1801-1848  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 4525 Oak Street Kansas City Missouri 64111
Date:
1844
Notes:
"The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 2," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 91-93
"The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 1," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 194-199.
"An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr.," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981.
Brooklyn Museum, 1976.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 128.
Image on file.
"The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 2," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 91.
"The collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945; volume 1," Kansas City, MO: The Museum, 2007, pg. 195.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 128.
(Lower center:) T. Cole / 1844 signed
National Academy of Design Twentieth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1845, no. 178.
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Summary:
Sunset landscape with two children playing on the grass in the foreground, a mill on the river bank at right, a man rowing a boat at left, cattle on a grassy hill at the bend in the river, sailboats in the distance, and a mountain in the background.
Topic:
Landscape--Time--Sunset  Search this
Architecture exterior--Industry--Mill  Search this
Landscape--River  Search this
Architecture--Boat--Sailboat  Search this
Animal--Cattle  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Control number:
IAP 35680094
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_283664