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The Oxbow (Cole)

Landscapes and Still Lifes

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
1836 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1
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Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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1. The Oxbow, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, year
    1836
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, location
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Genre reference
    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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