The Dead Abel
The Dead Abel | |
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The Dead Abel, 1832 | |
Artist | Thomas Cole |
Year | 1832 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 43 cm × 72 cm (17 in × 28.5 in) |
Location | Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, New York |
The Dead Abel is an 1832 oil-on-paper painting by British-American painter Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School. It depicts the dead biblical figure Abel.[1] It was originally intended to be a study for a larger painting; however, this other work was never created.
Artist's background
Tom Christopher[
History
Cole painted The Dead Abel at the Accademia di San Luca in Florence, Italy. Cole intended the work to be a study for a larger painting which would have depicted Adam and Eve discovering Abel's body. This painting was never made.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "The Dead Abel". Albany Institute of History and Art. Retrieved September 6, 2020.
- ^ Christopher, "Living Off the Landscape", 1.
- ^ "Living Off the Landscape". National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ^ Noble, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, 6.
- ^ Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. "Hudson River School of Art", 1.
- ^ Genocchio, Benjamin (June 18, 2006). "In an Untamed Wilderness, Finding the Serene". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 15, 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
Works cited
- Christopher, Tom. "Living Off the Landscape: How Thomas Cole and Frederick Church made Themselves at Home in the Hudson River Valley." Humanities 30, no. 4 (2009):6-11.
- Noble, Luis Legrand. The Life and Works of Thomas Cole. Edited by Elliot S. Vesell Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
- Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. “Hudson River School of Art”. http://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/arts-culture/hudson-river-school-art.
External links
- Explore Thomas Cole provided by the National Park Service