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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm - The Oxbow, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Cole, Thomas 1801-1848  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 08.228
Date:
1836
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum, Vol. I, 1965, pg. 227-229.
Czestochowski, Joseph S., "The American landscape tradition: a study and gallery of paintings," New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982, fig. 5.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 468.
"The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 175.
Peters, Lisa N., "John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist," Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1999, fig. 64.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 75.
Image on file.
"Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, pg. 16.
Czestochowski, Joseph S., "The American landscape tradition: a study and gallery of paintings," New York: E.P. Dutton, 1982, pg. 15.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 471.
"The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 111.
Peters, Lisa N., "John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist," Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1999, fig. 64.
Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 75.
(Lower left:) T. Cole 1836 signed
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Summary:
View looking down from Mount Holyoke with the Connecticut River on the right, and the sky clearing overhead as a thunderstorm moves off to the left.
Topic:
Landscape--River--Connecticut River  Search this
Landscape--Massachusetts--Northampton  Search this
Landscape--Weather--Storm  Search this
Control number:
IAP 36120192
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_41981