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Thomas Cole
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Early Life
• Thomas Cole was born in 1801 at Bolton, Lancashire in Northwestern England.
• Cole came with his family to the United States in the early 1818. They settled in Ohio.
• Starting in portraiture, he shifted to landscapes.
• In 1825 he moves to New York City.
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He discovers the Valley
• 1825- He discovered the beauty of the Catskills.
• His collection of small paintings of the Catskills began to take notice in the NYC art scene.
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He Leaves for Europe• From 1829-1832, Cole returned to Europe for studies and business.• He met a large number of wealthy Americans, receiving many
commissions.• His reputation and stature were slowly increasing• Cole returned to NYC in 1832 and mounted his collection of European
paintings.
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Catskill Studio
• Afterwards, he established his first studio in Catskill, NY• While there, Cole met Luman Reed. He would make Cole
his patron.• For Reed, Cole produced his best-known series of paintings-
“The Course of Empire” (1836)• From 1835-1836, Cole stayed in Catskill to work on “The
Course of Empire”• At this time, he began to express his concern for the impact
of industrialization on the valley.
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Course of Empire: “The Savage State”
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Course of Empire: “Arcadian (or Pastoral) State”
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Course of Empire: “Consummation”
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Course of Empire: “Destruction”
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Course of Empire: “Desolation”
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Family Life at Cedar Grove
-On November 22, 1836, Cole married Maria Bartow in the West Cedar Grove, which became his come.
-He and his wife would have five children.
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Later Career…
• In 1839, Cole began to produce 4 paintings called “The Voyage of Life” for Samuel Ward.
• In 1841, Cole voyaged to Europe and he painted a second “Voyage of Life” in Italy.
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Late life
• Upon his return, Cole decided to become a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Catskill
• He later designed a new church building for St. Luke’s and his friend Reverend Louis L. Noble
• Around 1843, Cole began to worry about selling his paintings
• He then turned to publishing a number of his letters and poems in NY papers and magazines
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Late life
• Around 1844, Cole began to accept students in his studio
• In 1846, Cole began another series of paintings called “The Cross and the World”
• Cole established a second studio.• Cole suffered an attack of pleurisy and congestion of
his lungs and died on February 11, 1848