Kindred Spirits

Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849, oil on canvas, 44 x 36 in., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.106  About Decode Compare Cole's Process Cole's Words Locate Thomas Cole's sudden death from pleurisy, a...

The Voyage of Life Series Page

The Voyage of Life Series Page Childhood (First Set) Youth (First Set) Manhood (First Set) Old Age (First Set) Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life, 1839-1840, oil on canvas, 43 x 36 in., Munson, 55.105-8 In the late 1830s, Cole was intent on advancing the genre of...

Course of Empire Series Page

The Course of Empire Series The Savage State The Arcadian or Pastoral State The Consummation of Empire Destruction Desolation Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, 1834-1836, oil on canvas, 39 ¼ x 63 ¼ in., New-York Historical Society, Gift of the New-York Gallery of the...

Mount Etna From Taormina, Sicily

Mount Etna From Taormina, Sicily Thomas Cole, Mount Etna from Taormina, Sicily, 1843, oil on canvas, 78 5/8 x 120 5/8 in., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1844.6. Purchased from the artist by Alfred Smith, Daniel Wadsworth, and the original subscribers to the...