Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton), 1836, Oil on canvas, 51½
On January 29th, Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition features the Hudson River School founder’s masterpieces The Oxbow and The Course of the Empire series as points of departure to examine the painter’s European influences. Thomas Cole, one of the most celebrated American artists leading an essential American landscape painting movement, was nonetheless inspired by the European giants J. M. W. Turner and John Constable among others. To mark the 200-year anniversary of Cole’s arrival in American, the Met offers a global context for this British-born, world-traveling artist.
