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Essay. Thomas Cole inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School.Born in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England, in 1801, at the age of seventeen he emigrated with his family to the United States, first working as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before going to Steubenville, Ohio, where his father had established a wallpaper manufacturing.
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Essay on American Scenery American Monthly Magazine 1 (January 1836) Thomas Cole (I. Introduction) The essay, which is here offered, is a mere sketch of an almost illimitable subject--American Scenery; and in selecting the theme the writer placed more confidence in its overflowing richness, than in his own capacity for treating it in a manner worthy of its vastness and importance.
Cole paints The Course of Empire during a highly political time between the Federalists and the Democrats, some would argue that The Course of Empire is a political warning of the excesses of democracy but the religious symbolism proves that while it may be a political warning the real warning is one that is much stronger than that: nature and God defeat all that is not done in harmony with them.
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In his essay, Cole described the process of creating an agrarian landscape out of the American wilderness as the “ravages of the axe.”(2)Thus, while River in the Catskills embraces certain pastoral landscape conventions by depicting a pasture, livestock, and lush greenery, it also subverts this tradition with its image of the train, a sign of improvement, or modernization. Such an.