Posted on 12/26/2018 3:34:03 PM PST by Rebelbase
When I think of Cole....I also think of Asher Durand’s painting “Kindred Spirts” that depicts Cole with his friend, William Cullen Bryant...painted a year after Cole’s death.
"He is the painter of scenes from the American Revolution. He also painted the Declaration of Independence. Much of the image of that event is fictional as far as artistic license goes, but he is the artist who gave us the images we live off now. Those are the images of our past. The painting of the Declaration of Independence is his major contribution.
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he was a painter with a fun imagination and a laudable ability to paint representational art.
http://www.google.com/search?q=thomas+cole+paintings&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
Naturally, this is my favorite of his:
http://www.google.com/search?q=thomas+cole+architect%27s+dream&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
Thomas Cole: Artist, Romantic, Anti-Jacobin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3638399/posts
Thomas Cole: The Course of Empire
http://www.explorethomascole.org/tour/items/63/series/
Subsidence of the Waters (the Deluge)
http://www.google.com/search?q=thomas+cole+the+deluge&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
and the earlier contemporary, Francis Danby’s “Deluge” is an old fave:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/09/12/danbys-deluge/
But there was a successful unintended consequence.
Botched Restoration of Jesus Fresco Miraculously Saves Spanish Town
I agree! Much better!
“Cat saves man from fire” little known Rockwell painting.
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