Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole was an Anglo-American artist who lived from 1801 to 1848 and founded the Hudson River School art movement, painting romantic landscapes and history paintings. Influenced by European painters but with a strong American sensibility, he worked primarily with oil on canvas, and his paintings are typically allegoric, often depicting small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes that frame the New World as a natural eden in contrast with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution era Britain. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism, urbanism and westward expansion. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/