Thomas Cole, The Consummation, from The Course of Empire series, 1836 Throughout the nineteenth century, all eyes watched anxiously the development of culture. Optimistic humanists’ hopes for social ...

Truettner & Wallach, eds. Thomas Cole: Landscape into History. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1994. Tymn, Marshall, ed. Thomas Cole’s Poetry: The Collected Poems of America’s Foremost Painter of ...

Nearly two centuries ago, when America was still young, Thomas Cole had a premonition of how our civilization would end. In a cycle of five paintings titled The Course of Empire, Cole showed the ...

Thomas Cole, The Savage State, or The Commencement of Empire, from The Course of Empire series, 1834. To quote again the section of the poem with which we began this series, Byron observes: First ...

The Course of Empire is a cycle of paintings from the 1830s that are just as powerful when they were exhibited as they are today. This cycle of five paintings, done by Thomas Cole, an English artist ...

It’s the same hesitancy that was shared by Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole, whose epic five-part masterpiece The Course of Empire could be considered the original American work of ...

‘Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire’ is on 1 June – 17 October); ‘Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire’ is on 11 June – 7 October (nationalgallery.org.uk) More about National Gallery ...