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.”

The painting titled "Distant View of Niagara Falls" as an art print

This painting was painted by the male painter Thomas Cole in 1830. The more than 190 year old original was made with the size of 47,9 × 60,6 cm (18 7/8 × 23 7/8 in) and was crafted on the medium oil on panel. The original artpiece has the following text as inscrption: "signed, lower right: "Thomas Cole / 1830"". Besides, the artpiece is in the the Art Institute Chicago's collection located in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. The modern art public domain artwork is included with courtesy of Art Institute Chicago. Creditline of the artwork: Friends of American Art Collection. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. Thomas Cole was a painter from United States, whose art style can be attributed primarily to Romanticism. The painter was born in 1801 in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, county and died at the age of 47 in 1848.

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