View of Fort Putnam
View of Fort Putnam | |
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Artist | Thomas Cole |
Year | 1825 |
Medium | Oil on Canvas |
Dimensions | 69.2 cm × 86.4 cm (27.2 in × 34.0 in) |
Location | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
View of Fort Putnam is an 1825 oil-on-canvas painting of the Hudson River with a view of Fort Putnam by British-American painter Thomas Cole, who founded the Hudson River School. It is currently owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[1][2]
Artist's background
Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”
See also
References
- ^ "View of Fort Putnam". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Archived from the original on September 7, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
- ^ "View of Fort Putnam". Explore Thomas Cole. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
- ^ Christopher, “Living Off the Landscape,” 1.
- ^ Noble, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, 6.
- ^ Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. Hudson River School of Art, 1.
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.
- Christopher, Tom (July 2009). "Living Off the Landscape". Humanities. 30 (4). National Endowment for the Humanities. ISSN 0018-7526. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- 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