APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, NEW YORK, AND THE FORMER HOME OF A MAN WHO LITERALLY INTRODUCED THIS REGION TO AMERICA, THOMAS COLE IS AN AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ARTISTS ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. — Lush Northern hardwood forests, cascading waterfalls, serene valleys and the distant Adirondack mountains populate the works of Thomas Cole, father of the Hudson River School. His ...

Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from the essay “Native Prospects: Indigenous Peoples and the Landscape-Painting Tradition” by Scott Manning Stevens ...

ROCKLAND, Maine — “Indians Viewing Landscape,” Thomas Cole’s tiny 1840 painting of a great sweeping vista of the Adirondack mountains, is what I’d call the keystone piece of “Native Prospects: ...

As the environmental crisis accelerates, contemporary artists have taken up the mantle of addressing the precarious present. By Zoë Lescaze The deaccessioning of 15 works by museums, including an ...

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York has opened a new exhibition titled “Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape.” It juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. — The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has unveiled a major new initiative, “Thomas Cole: Painting the Nature of America,” in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026.

Read a collection of Masterpiece columns on some of the nation’s most evocative nature-themed artworks, which reflect a preoccupation with the land dating back to the founding of the Hudson River ...

Lassiter, Barbara B., "Reynolda House: American paintings," Winston-Salem, N.C., Reynolda House, 1971. Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole ...