Thomas Cole

Yayoi Kusama's Yellow Pumpkin on the Japanese island of Naoshima. Image by jezhowell.photo via Flickr
9 Famous Artworks that Celebrate the Fall Season
Here we look at nine examples of beautiful autumnal imagery and spirit. From Claude Monet's seasonal "Haystacks" to Giuseppe Arcimboldo's strange flora-based portrait series, to Yayoi Kusama's iconic…
Thomas Cole 'Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund', 1827, oil on canvas
The Life and Art of Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole is remembered as one of America's earliest and most significant landscape painters.
View of the painting described in this story. A knarled tree sits in the foreground of the left corner and a storm rages in the distance of this same half.
Reframed: Thomas Cole’s "The Oxbow"
It is fascinatingly unpredictable how some of the biggest brouhahas among cultural critics can be preserved for history, while others are so quickly lost to time.
Thomas Cole: A Closer Look

Watch a video that reveals the findings of a technical examination conducted by The Met's conservation team on Thomas Cole's The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire: The…