The absolute joy in appreciating the works of Thomas Cole is that so many of the places he painted in and around the northeast United States, are intact and more often than not still bear an astonishing resemblance to how they looked when Cole painted them all those years ago.

The forthcoming Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas Cole ehibition titled Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings shall surely amaze, an exhibition which even puts him in such proper contemporary influences such as Joseph Turner and John Constable. As these images show, forget not the American landscape as well.

Some of the author's images mention "Rayburn" a 2013 Sam Rayburn Gallery exhibition that was held in the Congressional Building of the same name at the United States Capitol Building. That brochure may be seen here.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), View from Mount Holyoke, The Ox-Bow, 1836, Metropolitan Museum of Art

RAB, View from Mount Holyoke, 2010, (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Storm King, 1825, Ball State Art Museum, Muncie, Indiana

RAB, Storm King 2012, (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Highlands from Mortons, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MIchigan, 39.568.24

RAB, Highlands from Boyles, 2002

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Ruins of Fort Putnam, 1825, Promised gift to the Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania

RAB, Fort Putnam, West Point, 2012, (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), View on the Catskill Creek, 1836, Metropolitan Museum of Art

RAB, Summitt Avenue view of Catskill Creek, 2015

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Early Morning, 1826, Alexander Gallery, NY, NY

RAB, Fawns Leap in Kaaterskill Clove, 2016

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Falls of the Kaaterskill, 1826, Warner Collection, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

RAB, Kaaterskill Falls, 2016 

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Kaaterskill, 1826, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT

RAB, Kaaterskill, 2014

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Top of Kaaterskill Falls, 1826, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Michigan

RAB, Top of Kaaterskill looking at Hunter Mountain, 2012 (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Kaaterskill Clove, 1827, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

RAB, Haines Falls in Kaaterskill Clove, 2012 (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Lake with Dead Trees, Oberlin College Art Museum, Ohio

RAB, North Lake, 2010 (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Catskill Mountain House, Questroyal Fine Art, NY

RAB, Pine Orchards, 2010, (Rayburn Exhibition, Washington, DC 2013)

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, 1844, Brooklyn Museum

RAB, Sunset Rock View of the Twin Lakes and Pine Orchards, 2014

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), A View of Boston, circa 1841, loaned to the White House, Washington, DC

RAB, Chickatawbut Observation Tower, Blue Hill, MA 2009

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Cole

Crawford Notch Train Station, NH

 A follower of Thomas Cole was Frederic Church and the latter work is in the Met exhibition:

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Clouds over Olana, 1870, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY

RAB, Clouds over Olana, 2013

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