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Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
The Garden of Eden, 1828
Oil on canvas
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
1990.10

The visionary landscape painter Thomas Cole was most responsible for establishing a distinctive American art in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Through his painting and writing, he inspired a fascination with the landscape, elevating it to the honored level of history painting. By 1827 Cole was formulating an idea that expressed the full extent of his true artistic ambition: to paint landscapes of high and holy meaning. This so engaged Cole’s fertile imagination that his depiction of Eden was brought forth in lavish detail and on a grand scale.

Details

  • Title: The Garden of Eden
  • Creator: Thomas Cole
  • Creator Lifespan: 1801/1848
  • Creator Nationality: American
  • Creator Gender: male
  • Creator Death Place: Catskill, New York
  • Creator Birth Place: Bolton-le-Moor, England
  • Date Created: 1828
  • Physical Dimensions: w134 x h97.8 cm
  • Type: paintings
  • Rights: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
  • External Link: Amon Carter Museum of American Art
  • Medium: Oil on canvas

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