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The Oxbow - Thomas Cole
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The Oxbow

Thomas Cole · 1836

Oil on canvas · 130.8 × 193 cm

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Where to see it

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

About the painting

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a seminal American landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The 1836 painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Style, subject and colours

Hudson River SchoolLandscapeBirdHorseMountainsRiver and lakeTreesBrownBlackWhite

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