View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a 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, and has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.
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Year Created LocationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1 Medium
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1. The Oxbow, Wikipedia
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1836
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Oil on canvas
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School.
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