Where to See Falls of the Kaaterskill: Private Collection

Thomas Cole completed this dramatic view of Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains, one of America's most celebrated natural wonders. The composition captures the sublime power of the wilderness with romantic intensity.

Cole founded the Hudson River School, America's first major art movement. His landscapes celebrated American nature as moral and spiritual inspiration. This work remains in a private collection.

Thomas Cole founded the Hudson River School, America's first landscape painting movement.

Kaaterskill Falls is a two-tier waterfall in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a favorite subject for 19th-century painters.

The Kaaterskill Falls are a two-tier waterfall in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Thomas Cole painted them as a symbol of American wilderness grandeur for the Hudson River School.

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