Scene in the Catskills / Thomas Cole / Attributed to
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1919.2
- Title
- Scene in the Catskills
- Artist
- Thomas Cole
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born England, 1801-1848
- Medium and Support
- oil on board
- Object Creation Date
- 1801-1848
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Jean A. Wetmore
- Style/Group/Movement
- Hudson River School
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.r.: T COLE
- Dimensions
- 50.6 cm x 60.6 cm x 0.6 cm (19 15/16 in. x 23 7/8 in. x 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- This landscape painting depicts a rocky hillside beneath a blue sky and towering cloud formations. In the foreground area, a stream flows between boulders and cascades over rocks. There is a large square boulder with the roots and stump of a dead tree. The right side of the painting has green vegetation along the edege of the stream and tall green-leafed trees further back on the side of the hill. On the left, beyond the hill, there is a glimpse of far distant mountains. This scene is painted in warm tones of green and brown in a realistic manner. Patches of sunlight highlight areas of the hillside, boulders and the stream.
- Subject Matter
- Thomas Cole was an important American landscape painter during the 1820s and a key figure in the Hudson River school of painting. Cole became famous for painting scenes of the American wilderness following a sketching trip up the Hudson river in 1825. This scene of the Catskill Mountains in New York state shows the rocky terrain of the area, with its rushing stream and craggy boulders, set against a light blue sky and towering clouds.
- Primary Keywords
- clouds
- country houses
- house
- landscapes
- mountains
- people
- rocks
- trees
- water
- waterfalls
- Secondary Keywords
- settlement area
- associated concepts
- atmospheric effects
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- buildings and the land
- components of bodies of water
- descriptors
- dwellings
- earth sciences concepts
- geography
- houses
- houses by location
- houses by location or context
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- residential structures
- rural houses
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- waterscapes
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3543 x 2922
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 1919.2
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"Scene in the Catskills; Thomas Cole; Attributed to." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1919.2/1919_2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
