The Oxbow
Thomas Cole · 1836
The story
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a seminal American landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The 1836 painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.
- Artist
- Thomas Cole
- Date
- 1836
- Collection
- The Met, New York, United States
- Movement
- Hudson River school
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 130.8 × 193 cm
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