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Painting by Thomas Cole
This article is about the painting. For the physical fort, see
Fort Putnam
.
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
.
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Artist's background
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Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”
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Cole emigrated to
America
with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.
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As a child, his surroundings were of
Lancashire
,
England
, an area known to be an epicenter of
Britain
’s primarily industrial region. Because of this, Cole was granted an additional clarity of and sensitivity to the vibrancy of American landscapes awash with color, a stark contrast to the bleak and subdued landscapes of the country he left behind.
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See also
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References
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"View of Fort Putnam"
.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
. Archived from
the original
on September 7, 2020
. Retrieved
August 29,
2020
.
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"View of Fort Putnam"
.
Explore Thomas Cole
. Retrieved
August 29,
2020
.
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Christopher, “Living Off the Landscape,” 1.
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Noble,
The Life and Works of Thomas Cole
, 6.
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Great Northern Catskills of Greene County.
Hudson River School of Art
, 1.
Works cited
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