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View in the White Mountains
by Thomas Cole
GenreLandscape
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American artist Thomas Cole painted this view of New Hampshire's White Mountains, celebrating American wilderness as a source of spiritual renewal. Dramatic peaks rise above forest and valley, bathed in atmospheric light. Cole founded the Hudson River School movement that heightened landscape painting to a serious American art form.
Cole made sketching trips to the White Mountains, translating his observations into romantic compositions. The painting's grandeur argues for nature's moral significance. Displayed at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.
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About View in the White Mountains
This work hangs at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, America's oldest public art museum with strong Hudson River School holdings.
Thomas Cole founded the Hudson River School, America's first major art movement celebrating wilderness landscapes You can see it at Wadsworth Atheneum.
The White Mountains attracted American painters seeking dramatic scenery that could rival European Alpine landscapes in grandeur It's at Wadsworth Atheneum.
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