Thomas Cole, 1830 - Distant View of Niagara Falls - fine art print

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In mid-nineteenth-century America, a love of the sublime landscape, which inspired in viewers an awe of nature and a sense of the nation’s special status, was felt nowhere more powerfully than at Niagara Falls, New York, by far the most frequently depicted and visited natural attraction in the United States. Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, visited Niagara Falls for the first time in May 1829. He sketched the falls, writing of his experience there, “I anticipated much—but the grandeur of the falls far exceeds anything I had been told of them—I am astonished that there have been no good pictures of them—I think the subject a sublime one.”

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Summary of the painting named Distant View of Niagara Falls

The work of art was created by the male artist Thomas Cole in the year 1830. The piece of art was painted with the size: 47,9 × 60,6 cm (18 7/8 × 23 7/8 in). Oil on panel was used by the American artist as the medium of the work of art. Signed, lower right: "Thomas Cole / 1830" is the masterpiece's inscription. The work of art can be viewed in in the digital collection of Art Institute Chicago. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (public domain license). Besides, the artpiece has the following creditline: Friends of American Art Collection. Besides this, the alignment is landscape and has a side ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. Thomas Cole was a painter of American nationality, whose style was primarily Romanticism. The American painter lived for a total of 47 years, born in 1801 in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, county and passed away in the year 1848.

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