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View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm

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Description: View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
TitleView of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1838
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationCleveland Museum of Art
http:/­/­www.clevelandart.org/­art/­1335.1917
Accession number1335.1917
SubjectsHudson River school of landscape paintingAmerican frontierMountains in artGeology in art
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Chapter One: Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science
Rebecca Bedell
Description: The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
~IN THE COLLECTION of the Bronck Museum in Coxsackie, New York, is a battered wooden box the size and shape of a briefcase. It contains Thomas Cole’s (1801–1848) mineral collection (fig. 5), one of the many bits of evidence we have of his interest in geology. Measuring about twenty by eighteen inches, the box holds...
Author
Rebecca Bedell
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2001 Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.17-45
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00117.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18360&redirecttoanchor=21051
Chapter subject tags:Natural historyExcavations (Archaeology) in artScientific discoveries in artGeologyLandscape painting, American
3. Reading the Campagna: “Silence Made Visible”
William L. Vance
Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
In the spring of 1833 America’s first “foreign correspondent” stood on the “lofty turrets” of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella and saw before him the original of “one of the finest landscapes ever painted” ...
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.68-153
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.008
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Chapter subject tags:Campagna di Roma (Italy)ArcadianismCole, Thomas, 1801-1848Landscape painting, American--19th centuryAmerican literature--19th centuryInness, George, 1825-1894James, Henry, 1843-1916Rome (Italy)--In literature
2. Bingham’s Boone
David M. Lubin
Description: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America
~~Before we, too, abandon Ariadne on her desert isle, let us pause to consider her as the foundation of nineteenth-century American landscape painting. The future wife of Bacchus, nature god of wine and revelry, Ariadne, in all her sumptuous availability, is the trope of bountiful America ready for the taking. Such availability, in...
Author
David M. Lubin
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1994 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.55-105
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.005
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Chapter subject tags:Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820American frontierCumberland Gap (Ky. And Va.)Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879Missouri River

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