''View of Fort Putnam'' is an 1825 oil-on-canvas painting of the

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with a view of

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by British-American painter

Thomas Cole Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history painti ...

, who founded the

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area ...

. It is currently owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Artist's background

Tom Christopher wrote that “

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Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.” Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen. As a child, his surroundings were of

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, an area known to be an epicenter of

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’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.Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. ''Hudson River School of Art'', 1.

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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. * * 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.

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