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American Nature<\/h3>\n
by James Panero<\/span>, September 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
It is impossible not to feel a…shudder when stepping onto the porch of the 1815 Main House of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. The view to the west peers down to Catskill Creek and extends all the way up to the misty ridgelines of Kaaterskill High Peak and Round Top. It looks like a painting, and for good reason. Thomas Cole (1801\u201348) observed and depicted this vista of the Catskill Mountains more often than any other…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Thomas Cole National Historic Site presents the exhibit ‘Circles of Influence: Thomas Cole and the American Landscape Movement’<\/h3>\n
by Joe Donahue, August 19, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
The exhibition brings together the work of Thomas Cole with artists he was in direct contact with, including Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and Asher B. Durand; artist-members of the Cole family, and later painters who were shaped by his legacy and considered part of the artistic movement Cole founded…. Maura O’Shea, Executive Director of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, joins us this morning…. Listen to the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Circles of Influence: Thomas Cole & The American Landscape Movement<\/h3>\n
by James D. Balestrieri, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, July 31, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
Cole\u2019s importance and influence rests on the breadth of his interests: the natural (and super-natural); the real and the ideal; the biblical and the cyclical; the primordial and the historical; the realistic and the oneiric; the emotional and the intellectual. His major works, like the four-painting sequence, \u2018The Course of Empire,\u2019 embody all of these dialectical, philosophical pairs. Artists who follow him pick up on one or more of these strands and run with them…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The 25 most influential works of American culture<\/h3>\n
by Washington Post Staff, July 15, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
A decade-by-decade look at the books, music, art and ideas that shaped society…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Up the Hudson and Into the Heart of America<\/h3>\n
by Megan Pidcock, July 13, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
First by train, then by car, and finally by foot, I witnessed one of the most beautiful places in the country this past Fourth of July weekend: the Hudson River Valley… Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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American Artists Are Still Looking for Utopia<\/h3>\n
by M. H. Miller, June 15, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
Of all the artists who spent their careers searching for a utopian ideal, my favorite is Thomas Cole… Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250<\/h3>\n
by Rhea Nayyar, June 12, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
This national historic site, where Thomas Cole resided and worked from his marriage until his death, calls on visitors to reflect on the Hudson River School movement and its persisting influence…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Emma Davidson Tribbs Takes the Lead at Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
by Lambeth Hochwald, June 9, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
Emma Davidson Tribbs, the recently appointed board chairwoman of the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, feels completely at home amid the historically preserved sites that dot the Hudson Valley…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Review: Thomas Cole Show Reveals the Man Behind the Hudson River School<\/h3>\n
by William Jaeger, June 6, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
All of this, in his own house, makes Cole\u2019s life more tactile, believable, and ever present…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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What did the Hudson River School Painters See?<\/h3>\n
by Kim Beil, visuals by Tony Cenicola, May 25, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The American art scene changed indelibly when Thomas Cole took a sketching trip to the Hudson Valley in 1825. Cole\u2019s finished paintings were unusual. His subjects weren\u2019t the saw-toothed Alps, nor the Italian countryside decorated with ancient ruins. Suddenly, the Catskills\u2019 stair-step skyline, its emerald forests, its silver-mirror creeks, its waterfalls and awesome clouds were art. This, finally, was American landscape art. … Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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THOMAS COLE: AN AMERICAN VISIONARY, MAUREEN DOUGHERTY, AND SENSE OF PLACE<\/h3>\n
by David Ebony, May 4, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Thomas Cole (1801\u20131848) is widely regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School of painters, whose eco-conscious, Romantic outlook seems to be growing in influence exponentially with every passing year, especially among younger generations of artists, writers and thinkers… Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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America 250 Calendar: Ways to Celebrate the Nation Across the Nation<\/h3>\n
by WSJ Arts in Review Staff, May 2, 2026 <\/span><\/p>\n
“Thomas Cole: An American Visionary\u201d (Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, N.Y. through Dec. 2026): The inaugural exhibition at the institution\u2019s new Richard Sharp Gallery presents paintings, drawings and working materials of the great American artist, who in the 19th century was instrumental in crafting the celebrated image of the nation…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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$\"\"$ <\/h3>\nThomas Cole: How the Catskills Inspired American Landscape Art<\/h3>\n
by Ted Reinstein, August 25, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n
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Our Go-To Guide to New York\u2019s Upstate Art Weekend<\/h3>\n
by\u00a0Sarah Cascone & Brian Boucher & Eileen Kinsella & Min Chen, July 17, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n
More than a century separates\u00a0Thomas Cole\u00a0and\u00a0Georgia O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s careers, but, as this exhibition argues, their practices blossomed on similar ground…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip<\/h3>\n
by Maya Pontone, <\/span><\/span>July 15, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n
Intricately painted porcelain and works on paper by botanical artist Emily Cole, the daughter of Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole, are placed in conversation with…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Best Kept Secrets Podcast<\/h3>\n
Host Mark Gustavson, <\/span><\/span>June 17, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n
Host Mark Gustavson is joined by co-host Sylvia Hasenkopf on a visit to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY.Maura O’Shea (Executive Director of the site) and Jennifer Greim (Director for Advancement) host Best Kept Secrets…. Listen to the episode here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip<\/h3>\n
by Maya Pontone, <\/span><\/span>July 15, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n
Intricately painted porcelain and works on paper by botanical artist Emily Cole, the daughter of Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole, are placed in conversation with…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Cole, Cole, and O\u2019Keeffe tap into nature in paired Thomas Cole House exhibits<\/span><\/h3>\n
by William Jaeger, July 14, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n
If there is a theme unifying the two key shows at the Thomas Cole House, it is the world of plants: the trees of Thomas Cole and Georgia O\u2019Keeffe and the flowers of Emily Cole. It\u2019s all about nature \u2014 or rather, Nature<\/span>…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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A look into the new exhibition “Emily Cole: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses” at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
by Joe Donahue, June 26, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n
This morning, we talk about the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site\u00a0in Catskill and their new exhibition of artwork by Emily Cole, Thomas Cole\u2019s daughter….. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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ART REVIEW: In ‘Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses,’ artists engage Emily Cole\u2019s botanical legacy in bold new ways<\/h3>\n
by Jennifer Huberdeau, June 13, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n
On a white porcelain plate with gilded edges, the life cycle of the magnolia flower blossoms, from early blooms to furry seed pod. Crafted from careful study and painted with a professional hand…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Art to See on Day Trips From New York City This Spring<\/h3>\n
Hilarie M. Sheets, May 1, 2025<\/p>\n
Ann Agee, Valerie Hegarty and Francesca DiMattio were inspired to make new works, while Jacqueline Bishop, Courtney M. Leonard, Jiha Moon, Michelle Sound and Stephanie Syjuco made site-responsive installations. These are all in lively conversation throughout the house and studio with Emily Cole\u2019s china wares (originally produced and exhibited in the same studio where her father once worked)…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Emily Cole, Daughter of Hudson River School Icon, Shines in Overdue Museum Show<\/h3>\n
Sarah Cascone, April 16, 2025<\/p>\n
The exhibition at Thomas Cole National Historic Site showcases her porcelain paintings alongside work by contemporary women artists…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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$\"\"$ <\/h3>\nFive Objects That Make You Consider the Great Beyond<\/h3>\n
Priya Chhaya, October 15, 2024<\/p>\n
Guests at the Main House where Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and wife Maria Bartow Cole (1813-1884) lived and died have often reported strange occurrences over the years\u2014often in the bedroom. The room contains several objects connected to the couple\u2019s life and guests report that the room often smells of old, fragrant roses…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Native Prospects<\/h3>\n
Jennifer Kabat, October 4, 2024<\/p>\n
At the historic house of Hudson River School\u2013founder Thomas Cole, contemporary works by Indigenous artists present alternative worldviews of landscape and place…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole Visits Prophetstown<\/h3>\n
Sierra Holt, September 27, 2024<\/p>\n
Although the artist\u2019s work will always hold this oversight, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site at Cole\u2019s nineteenth-century home and studio, Cedar Grove, in Catskills, New York, seeks to bring Indigenous perspectives into the museum\u2019s gallery space. One such initiative is Alan Michelson: Prophetstown<\/em>, an exhibition on view until December 1…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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19 Real Locations That Inspired Famous Paintings<\/h3>\n
Nick Mafi, September 27, 2024<\/p>\n
Cole immortalized the American landscape during a time when the industrial revolution was plundering natural resources. Cole\u2019s paintings, including\u00a0Kaaterskill Falls<\/em>, can be viewed as manifestos in which the artist poses a question to all Americans: Is the divine power of nature or the manmade prophecy of capitalism the viable path for our young nation? … Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC in Fall 2024<\/h3>\n
August 26, 2024<\/p>\n
Taking its title from the Shawnee community founded in 1808 in resistance to settler colonialism, this exhibition weaves together works by Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River) in a textual, fictional, historical, and visual tapestry of Indigenous relationships to land…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Midday Magazine: Let’s hear it for the Hudson River School!<\/h3>\n
Ralph Gardner Jr, August 10, 2024<\/p>\n
What may be the final piece of the Thomas Cole Historic Site puzzle fell into place in recent weeks with the opening of a new visitor\u2019s center. You\u2019re familiar with new car smell. Well, I\u2019m here to tell you there\u2019s also such a thing as spanking new building smell. The facility somehow manages to be modest, modern and majestic at the same time and like any such self-respecting public structure these days boasts its environmental bonafides…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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The Roundtable: Cole Center opens at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Joe Donahue, August 2, 2024<\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has a new visitors center that transforms how people experience the national historic landmark, orienting them toward the Catskill Mountains that so inspired the artist and early environmentalist Thomas Cole…. Listen to the full episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Stephen Shadley Crafts a Warm Welcome for a Catskills Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Alia Akkam, July 31, 2024<\/p>\n
On July 22, a ceremonial ribbon-cutting unveiled the Cole Center, the landmark\u2019s stand-alone visitor hub designed by AD100 interior and architectural designer Stephen Shadley. The multipurpose space will host visitor orientation and a gift shop and is designed to accommodate events, talks, student groups, and creative activities. Shadley, a member of the board of trustees of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, drew inspiration from Cole\u2019s architectural designs when devising the new structure…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Five Museum Shows to Visit During Your Late Summer Travels<\/h3>\n
Murray Whyte, July 12, 2024<\/p>\n
In the spring, the Museum of Fine Arts announced that it had commissioned Alan Michelson, a Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, to craft a sculptural response to “Appeal to the Great Spirit”… those seeking a notional preview can consult this solo exhibition of Michelson’s at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in the Catskills…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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The Campus and ‘Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape’ at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
July 3, 2024<\/p>\n
At once bold and graceful, \u201cNative Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape,\u201d an exhibition pairing Thomas Cole\u2019s work with that of Indigenous contemporary artists, serves as a corrective as well as a provocation… Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Exhibit review: Pairing works by Thomas Cole with contemporary Indigenous artists<\/h3>\n
William Jaeger, June 26, 2024<\/p>\n
What really brings the spirit of the show forward are the contemporary works by Indigenous artists, some directly addressing the exclusion of Indigenous people from the land (scape)…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole\u2019s Landscape Painting Through an Indigenous Lens<\/h3>\n
Scott Manning Stevens, June 13, 2024<\/p>\n
Unlike European Christian notions regarding human dominion over all of creation, the Haudenosaunee belief is that our relationship with the earth is one of responsibilities…. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Indigenous Artists Make Themselves Seen at the Thomas Cole Site<\/h3>\n
Steven Weinberg, May 26, 2024<\/p>\n
An exhibition curated by Scott Manning Stevens moves Native peoples to the forefront of historical depictions of the Hudson Valley and elsewhere…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Roundtable: \u201cNative Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape\u201d at Thomas Cole Historic Site through October 27<\/h3>\n
Sarah LaDuke, May 7, 2024<\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York has opened a new exhibition titled \u201cNative Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape.\u201d It juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of their homelands and the environment with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole, which are rooted in European tradition… Listen to the full episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Six Trees that Inspire at Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios<\/h3>\n
Haley Somolinos, April 12, 2024<\/p>\n
When thinking of painters and trees, Bob Ross may be the first to come to mind. However, painters were charmed by \u201chappy little trees\u201d for centuries before Ross…. Cole wrote that \u201cTrees are like men, differing wildly in character\u2026 they exhibit striking peculiarities, and sometimes grand originality.”…\u00a0The 200-year-old honey locust that\u00a0towers over his home is no exception, with its distinctive three-branched thorns. Planted at the entrance to the Main House, the honey locust appears in an 1868 painting of the site… Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Landscape View: A New Documentary Digs Into the Past at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Malea Martin, Winter 2024<\/p>\n
Early 19th century artist Thomas Cole is widely considered America\u2019s first great landscape painter, known for his intricate oil depictions of sweeping natural views in the Catskills, where he lived and worked. But Cole wasn\u2019t a \u201cone-man band,\u201d says Betsy Jacks, executive director of the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site. \u201cThomas Cole didn\u2019t do everything\u2014he didn\u2019t grind his pigments and make the tea and take care of the children and plant the garden. It took a whole household to make that happen.\u201d…Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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$\"\"$ <\/h3>\nTen shows to see at New England museums this fall<\/h3>\n
Murray Whyte, October 20, 2023<\/p>\n
WOMEN REFRAME THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE On view through the end of the month at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y., this exhibition moves to the New Britain Museum of American Art for the winter… Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Newly Reviewed – Upstate – ‘Women Reframe American Landscape’<\/h3>\n
Travis Diehl, August 30, 2023<\/p>\n
An exhibition at the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site\u00a0shows the extent to which the idea of landscape has been rethought….. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Illuminating Sarah Cole<\/h3>\n
2023 Cole Fellow Kristen Marchetti, August 12, 2023<\/p>\n
Sarah Cole (1805\u20131857) was an accomplished American artist known for her paintings, etchings, and drawings. Like her brother Thomas Cole, an influential figure in the Hudson River School, she worked in the earliest years of the Hudson River School movement. She exhibited and sold her work nationally while living periodically at Cedar Grove, the property we know today as the Thomas Cole National Historic Site…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Women Reframe American Landscape Susie Barstow & Her Circle \/ Contemporary Practices<\/h3>\n
Jessica Skwire Routhier, August 11, 2023<\/p>\n
The visual appeal of the works draws you in and creates a space where you can begin to question why you have never seen some of them before, or why you respond as you do to seeing them in this place…. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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A Guide to Art Exhibitions in New York and Massachusetts<\/h3>\n
Zachary Small, July 27, 2023<\/p>\n
The exhibition at the\u00a0Thomas Cole site pulls double-duty, restoring Barstow\u2019s reputation as a pre-eminent American landscape painter while putting her in conversation with contemporary artists who also incorporate nature into their work. The roster of artists shown alongside the 19th-century painter is formidable…. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Susie Barstow lived a grand adventure but her art was erased<\/h3>\n
Philip Kennicott, July 24, 2023<\/p>\n
CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 Susie Barstow is said to have walked 10 to 12 miles a day and sometimes more than twice that. She climbed all the major peaks of the Adirondack, White and Catskill Mountains, traveled the country from end to end, spent time in Europe staying current with developing art trends, and ventured as far as India, China and Japan. She was a successful artist, with an established studio in Brooklyn and elite clients and students. At a time when art was a men\u2019s club, Barstow built not only a commercially successful career, but a formidable reputation as a landscape artist. … Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Exhibition Review: Women, Land and Art at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Erika Gaffney, July 6, 2023<\/p>\n
Last weekend marked my first-ever visit to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (TCNHS) in Catskill, New York. The English-American painter after whom this museum is named founded the Hudson River School, a movement traditionally associated with male artists. But in recent years, art historians, curators, dealers and other stakeholders have begun to shine a light on the women<\/em> artists of the Hudson River School…. Read the full article.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Susie Barstow, a 19th-Century Artist Who Hiked Mountains in Bloomers to Paint Stunning Landscapes, Finally Gets a Museum Retrospective<\/h3>\n
Sarah Cascone, July 4, 2023<\/p>\n
The result is a two-part exhibition pairing work by Barstow\u2014who already had one piece in the Cole house collection\u2014and other women of the Hudson River School, with that of contemporary women artists responding to the landscape. It\u2019s a collaboration between Siegel, who handled the historic material (and also wrote a new monograph about Barstow), and Thomas Cole National Historic Site chief curator Kate Menconeri and assistant curator Amanda Malmstrom, who enlisted the show\u2019s living artists. … Read the full article.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Women rule the landscape\u2013then and now\u2013in Cole exhibits<\/h3>\n
William Jaeger, June 28, 2023<\/p>\n
The problem begins if you think women don\u2019t usually paint landscapes. OK, you admit, they do <\/span>now \u2014\u00a0<\/span>women do everything now \u2014 but what about in the 1800s? \u201cWomen Reframe American Landscape\u201d at the Thomas Cole House gives proof that women did everything then, too. And women are growing our understanding of the landscape into the 21st century. … Read the full article<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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5 Unmissable Art Road Trips for Every Kind of Traveler<\/h3>\n
Cultured Magazine, June 27, 2023<\/p>\n
Go back in time with a visit to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/a>, which houses the home and studio of Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. On view is a two-part exhibition examining female artists\u2019 treatment of the landscape: first, a survey of the work of lesser-known Hudson River School painter Susie M. Barstow, and second, a show of contemporary interpretations of the landscape motif by artists including Kay Walkingstick, Jean Shin, and Teresita Fern\u00e1ndez. … Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Women Reframe American Landscape Painting At Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Chadd Scott, June 26, 2023<\/p>\n
Barstow (1836-1923) receives the first retrospective of her career one century following her death… Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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REVIEW: ‘Women Reframe American Landscape’ celebrates women artists of the Hudson River School with historical and contemporary works<\/h3>\n
Lauren Levato Coyne, May 12, 2023<\/p>\n
“Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle \/ Contemporary Practices” is a two-part exhibition that exemplifies what the Cole Site does best\u2014placing contemporary artists in dialogue with painters from the Hudson River School. … Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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The Roundtable: “Susie Barstow & Her Circle” at Thomas Cole National Historic Site as part of the “Women Reframe American Landscape” exhibition<\/h3>\n
Joe Donahue, May 5, 2023<\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York presents a two-part exhibition titled \u201cWomen Reframe American Landscape\u201d May 6 to October 29, 2023. … Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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8 must-see summer museum exhibitions to visit in the Berkshires<\/h3>\n
Jennifer Huberdeau, May 5, 2023<\/p>\n
With so many artistic offerings on the horizon, we\u2019ve put together a list of eight museum exhibitions that we feel are \u201cmust-see\u201d shows this summer \u2014 exhibitions that reinsert women artists into Hudson River School movement; explore form, function and design; celebrate collections and careers and highlight individual artists in new ways. … Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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2022<\/strong><\/p>\n
$\"\"$ <\/h3>\nThomas Cole Historic site breaks ground on $1.8M renovation project<\/h3>\n
Mellisa Manno, Nov 20, 2022<\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, home to the Hudson River School and birthplace of the American art movement, has broken ground on a $1.8 million renovation project that will launch a new comprehensive visitor center…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Marc Swanson Draws Comfort From Rural Cemeteries and ’80s Club Music<\/h3>\n
Scott Heller, November 8, 2022<\/p>\n
For his eerie installation, \u201cA Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco,\u201d the artist looked to Maggie Nelson, Hollywood glamour and upstate New York. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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At Mass MoCA, dead deer and disco lights elegize a dying world<\/h3>\n
Murray Whyte, November 3, 2022<\/p>\n
NORTH ADAMS, Mass., AND CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 Marc Swanson works on a rural property nestled in the\u00a0Hudson River Valley\u00a0that 200 years ago\u00a0inspired a school of painters\u00a0who found in its pristine waters and leafy glades the presence of the divine. Lately, for Swanson, it\u2019s been as much a ringside seat to a climate apocalypse as a bucolic refuge. \u201cA Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco,\u201d his sprawling exhibition that spans a pair of large galleries at\u00a0Mass MoCA\u00a0in North Adams and the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y., is his response to it. … Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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REVIEW: Marc Swanson, Thomas Cole National Historic Site and MASS MoCA<\/h3>\n
Lauren Levato Coyne, Nov\/Dec Issue<\/p>\n
Marc Swanson’s “A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” offers a queer elegy for our collective climate futures. The two-venue exhibition tackles… Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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11 Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios to Enjoy the Changing Seasons<\/h3>\n
Haley Somolinos, October 21, 2022<\/p>\n
Artists have always drawn inspiration from the changing of the seasons, and fall is often the perfect time to visit historic artists\u2019 homes and studios to see how the shifting landscapes provided creative influence for their works. … Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Best of Our Knowledge: Exploring a Virtual Painting<\/h3>\n
Lucas Willard, October 21, 2022<\/p>\n
A conversation with Thomas Cole National Historic Site Executive Director Betsy Jacks and The Best of Our Knowledge<\/em> host Lucas Willard about the new digital education prototype that transforms Thomas Cole\u2019s 1843 painting River in the Catskills<\/em> into a digital world that students can enter and navigate. Listen here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Day Trip: Olana & Thomas Cole Historic Sites<\/h3>\n
Jamie Larson, August 28, 2022<\/p>\n
The Olana State Historic Site, located just outside Hudson, New York, and the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site, across the Hudson River in Catskill, live in perpetual conversation with each other. The best way to engage in the dialogue between Olana, the home of Hudson River School of painting master Frederic Church, and that of Church\u2019s teacher and mentor Thomas Cole, is to visit them both. That\u2019s easy enough to do, given the sites are conveniently\u2014and intentionally\u2014connected by the scenic Hudson River Skywalk that spans the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. … Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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“A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” at Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Natasha Chuk, August 13, 2022<\/p>\n
At the famous painter’s home in Catskill, Swanson\u2019s exhibition is in dialogue with Cole\u2019s landscapes and fondness for the natural environment, offering an update to Cole\u2019s 19th century concerns and idealized mountain views, which were created to critique the exploitation of land for the benefit of industry. … Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Roundtable: “Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” at Thomas Cole National Historic Site and MASS MoCA<\/h3>\n
Joe Donahue, August 11, 2022<\/p>\n
A new exhibition of art installations by Catskill-based artist Marc Swanson is now at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. The exhibition — titled “Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” — is the second part of a two-part exhibition of his work that is also on display at MASS MoCA. The exhibition is inspired by the work of Thomas Cole and his warnings about environmental damage. … Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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‘Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration’ Review: What Might Have Been<\/h3>\n
Barrymore Laurence Scherer, July 19, 2022<\/p>\n
This intimate show tantalizes in unexpected ways. By juxtaposing finished works spanning his career with others in progress, it enables us to peer insightfully into Cole\u2019s visual imagination and working methods…Ultimately, this moving show emphasizes the tragedy of a flourishing artistic existence cut short. … Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole’s studio rises from the ground to enrich connection to artist<\/h3>\n
William Jaeger, June 23, 2022<\/p>\n
We might wish that Thomas Cole’s New Studio in Catskill had somehow survived from the 1840s until now, with all its vintage wood and rippled glass. We could then feel, maybe, what Cole experienced that one final year he worked there, 1847.<\/p>\n
But we are left with a richer narrative, a story about loss, about cultural amnesia and then about an awakening and a kind of redemption…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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The Roundtable: “Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration”<\/h3>\n
Joe Donohue, May 10, 2022<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll learn about the new exhibition \u201cThomas Cole\u2019s Studio: Memory and Inspiration,\u201d which explores the creative directions of the painter\u2019s last years, the rich and diverse group of works left in his studio at his death, and how his example so powerfully affected the evolution of art in America…Listen here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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New Exhibit of Thomas Cole Works reimagines Hudson River School painter’s last days<\/h3>\n
Karen Croke, April 16, 2022<\/p>\n
Thomas Cole was already the most famous landscape painter in America when he died unexpectedly at the age of 47 in 1848. One of the Hudson River School painters, Cole lived and worked in Catskill. His death shook the American art world, according to Franklin Kelly, senior curator of American paintings at the National Gallery of Art… Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Painter Thomas Cole’s personal journal published<\/h3>\n
Tracy Ziemer, April 16, 2022<\/p>\n
Having lived in the U.S. between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War \u2014 a period of great political and societal change \u2014 Cole writes about then-emerging industries and technologies, such as the railroad and the daguerreotype, and offers incredible details about hikes in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. … Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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What does it mean to live in the ruins of the future? At Mass MoCA, Marc Swanson’s answer is catastrophic beauty.<\/h3>\n
Jennifer Huberdeau, April 8, 2022<\/p>\n
The influences and inspirations of the past and present\u2014the nightclubs of his youth, the woods of today, the works of Thomas Cole, the impact of climate change, the similarities of the initial non-responses of the White House to AIDS and COVID-19\u2014are ever present, as they mix and mingle throughout\u00a0A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco<\/em>…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Connecting Point<\/h3>\n
April 7, 2022<\/p>\n
Marc Swanson discusses his new exhibit and how his work examines the relationship between humans and the natural world. Watch the video here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Re-Imagining Thomas Cole’s Last Studio<\/h3>\n
Sarah Rose Sharp, March 3, 2022<\/p>\n
It is hard to say where Cole\u2019s multitudinous interests would have taken him, if not for his early demise at the age of 47 in February of 1848. But a new exhibition opening on April 30 at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, promises to give viewers an idea of the creative directions of the painter\u2019s last years with a selection of works left in his studio at his death. … Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Peter Terzian, November 9, 2021<\/p>\n
The village of Catskill doesn’t seem particularly Catskilly<\/em>. That’s partly because it’s located on the Hudson River, several miles to the east of the mountains that give the region its name. Still, you can see those mountains, a bumpy band of grayish lilac, from the house of Thomas Cole, where my husband, Caleb, and I found ourselves one recent afternoon. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Building Bridges: An inside look at the new exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment<\/h3>\n
James D. Balestrieri, November\/December 2021<\/p>\n
A potent contribution to the relatively new notion that artists like Cole, Church and Heade were proto-environmentalists whose art brought them close to the natural world they loved and, as a consequence, made them frontline witnesses to its devastation. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Summer’s Last Hummingbirds<\/h3>\n
Ralph Gardner Jr., October 9, 2021<\/p>\n
With the exception of a few stragglers, hummingbirds have departed the Hudson Valley for their winter homes in southern Mexico and Central America. Most of those that remain can be spotted at an exhibition called “Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment.” Read and listen to the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Cross Pollination and Creativity Along the Hudson River<\/h3>\n
Kate Menconeri and William L. Coleman, October 7, 2021<\/p>\n
Cross Pollination<\/em> … is an exploration of systems of pollination in both nature and ecology, as well as a metaphor for the interplay of art and science, and relationships among artists across generations. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate Ecology<\/h3>\n
Sarah Rose Sharp, October 5, 2021<\/p>\n
There is a definite poignance to this exhibition, which pits the nascent awareness of human impact on wild spaces evident even in the 19th century to our present-day urgency around climate change and the need for meaningful revision of our relationship with consumption of natural resources. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment<\/h3>\n
Jason Rosenfeld, September 2021<\/p>\n
Cross Pollination<\/em> addresses an element of the work of the Hudson River School (or First New York School) and its present inheritors upstate (or Third New York School) … that is, the ecological emergency that humanity has brought on itself and now must face in our fraught Anthropocene, as intuited in the works of our 19th-century forebearers. … Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Many Artists Began Painting Outside During the Pandemic\u2014And They Might Never Go Back<\/h3>\n
Dodie Kazanjian, September 15, 2021<\/p>\n
Shara Hughes and Austin Eddy also escaped the city, renting a house in the Catskills this spring. It was directly across the street from the historic home of Thomas Cole and a short walk across the bridge to Frederic Church’s estate Olana, on the opposite bank of the Hudson River. Eddy went specifically to investigate plein air<\/em> painting\u2014he brought a bike and a portable easel. … Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Hummingbirds on the Hudson<\/h3>\n
August 16, 2021<\/p>\n
Cross Pollination<\/em> is an enterprising endeavor that makes for a thrilling visit to the region, filled with insights running back and forth between past and present…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Must-See Sculpture Park Shows<\/h3>\n
August 5, 2021<\/p>\n
A round-up of this year’s best outdoor sculpture exhibitions…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Pollination, indeed: Past, present intertwine at Cole, Olana exhibit<\/h3>\n
William Jaeger,<\/i> July 30, 2021<\/p>\n
Have a hankering to see a show that is muscular, multi-faceted, and tightly integrated into our regional lore and landscape? Head to Catskill and Hudson for the double-edged “Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church & Our Contemporary Moment.” … Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Olana, Cole House continue successful partnership<\/h3>\n
Shrishti Mathew,<\/i>\u00a0July 28, 2021<\/p>\n
The section of the Hudson River that flows between the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill and The Olana Partnership in Hudson is wide, and some would say so are the barriers that divide some arts institutions. The tourism history of both historic homes that also serve as art exhibit spaces – as befits the spirits of the original occupants – has traveled widely diverse paths to arrive at the present.<\/p>\n
But now here they are, finding shared goals and making their now-three collaborations with each other a fluid success…. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Discover what drew artists, writers and presidents to New York’s Hudson Valley<\/h3>\n
Debra Bruno,<\/i> July 30, 2021<\/p>\n
The region is rich in timeless scenery and American history, and as more downstate New Yorkers have moved to the area, all kinds of places to go and things to do have opened up or expanded: new restaurants, well-marked hiking trails, river cruises, art galleries and museums that celebrate the Hudson River School painters. … Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Art Angle Podcast: How Two Painters Helped Spark the Modern Conservation Movement<\/h3>\n
An exhibition traces the impact of Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Martin Johnson Heade on contemporary environmentalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Art Angle Podcast with Andrew Goldstein,<\/i> July 30, 2021<\/p>\n
Right now there is a powerful, highly ambitious, and deeply relevant art show in New York that weaves together the histories of conservation and American art in a way most people haven\u2019t seen before\u2026 on either side of the river are the historic homes of the famed Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Frederic Church in New York\u2019s Hudson River Skywalk Region. … Listen to the podcast here or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n
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National Exhibition “Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, And Our Contemporary Moment”<\/h3>\n
Joe Donahue, July 8, 2021<\/p>\n
Olana and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site are collaborating on a major exhibition, titled “Cross Pollination: Heade Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment.” It addresses the continuing influence of the Hudson Valley on American art and the cross pollination that is taking place across centuries. … Listen to the full interview here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Q & A with Elizabeth B. Jacks<\/h3>\n
W.A. Demers, June 4, 2021<\/p>\n
When the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced that the Thomas Cole National Historic Site was among 30 finalists for the 2021 National Medal for Museum and Library Service \u2014 one of just 15 museums nominated across the United States to be selected as a finalist for the award \u2014 the site\u2019s executive director Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d B. Jacks, was understandably elated. …. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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37 Art Centers Every Hudson Valleyite Should Visit<\/h3>\n
May 5, 2021<\/p>\n
The home and studio of Thomas Cole, founder of the renowned 19th-century Hudson River School of American painting, has been painstakingly preserved and refurbished. Also known as Cedar Grove, it’s now a National Historic Landmark with trails, gardens, and gorgeous views of the landscapes that Cole cherished and depicted in numerous paintings. …. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Off the Beaten Path: Spring Lights at Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Cassie Hudson, April 20, 2021<\/p>\n
For 20 years the Thomas Cole National Historic Site has been sharing the beauty of the painter’s home and studio with the community. This spring, people are welcome to enjoy a new community event called Spring Lights… Watch the full video here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill celebrates 20 years as finalist for national honor<\/h3>\n
Ariel Zangla, April 18, 2021<\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has more than one reason to celebrate this year… Watch the full video here<\/a><\/p>\n
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As Thomas Cole house mission adapts, message stays the same<\/h3>\n
Tresca Weinstein, April 12, 2021<\/p>\n
Created with 450 glowing orbs, the immersive installation conjures up a magical space filled with life and warmth. The sound score by composer Greg Hanson integrates Cole’s writings (as voiced by the actor Jamie Bell) and sets an emotional narrative that is reflected in the lighting design by Chris Bocchiaro and Megan Kinneen…a film by artist Brian Kenny, projected on the wall of the Old Studio… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Robert and Johanna Titus, October 16, 2020<\/p>\n
We like to think that we are good citizens of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley. Of course, we do a lot of writing hereabouts, but also, we belong to a number of our region’s historical, artistic, and conservation groups…. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Standing Where it Happened<\/h3>\n
By Barrymore Laurence Scherer, October 7, 2020<\/p>\n
Museums may represent the final destination of an artwork, but the artist\u2019s studio is its birthplace. Therefore, historic studios can offer an unparalleled experience of closeness to the creative act\u2014even when visited digitally.<\/p>\n
Among the most venerable in the U.S. is Cedar Grove in Catskill, N.Y., now revered as the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site,\u00a0home of the painter and founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. …. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Critics Notebook<\/h3>\n
By The Editors, September 4, 2020<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Pollinator Pavilion, at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site: Though the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site\u2019s interior remains closed to visitors, those passing through the Hudson Valley this autumn might want to stop by anyway to enjoy the open grounds…. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole Site Unveils Charging Station<\/h3>\n
By Sara Trafton, Columbia Greene Media, August 24, 2020<\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site announced the installation of an electronic vehicle charging station, the first in Catskill. The charging station, which was made possible by a donation from local residents and environmentalists Sara and Tom de Swardt, features two charging ports and allows two vehicles to charge at the same time… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Pollinator Pavilion Opens at the Thomas Cole Site<\/h3>\n
\u00a0August 7, 2020<\/p>\n
This Friday, August 7, the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, unveils\u00a0The Pollinator Pavilion<\/em>, a new public artwork by internationally renowned artists Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Editors\u2019 Picks: 17 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Peek Into MoMA\u2019s Film Vault to the Parrish Reopening<\/h3>\n
By Artnet News, August 4, 2020<\/p>\n
Husband and wife artists Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood have teamed up once again, this time on a new public artwork designed to attract hummingbirds\u2014yes, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird can be found in New York\u2014and other pollinators… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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An Upstate art Installation let’s visitors commune with hummingbirds<\/h3>\n
By Howard Halle, July 31, 2020<\/p>\n
We recommend making a weekend getaway\u00a0to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, NY. There, you’ll find\u00a0Pollinator Pavilion<\/em>, an interactive\u00a0outdoor art installation by artists Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood, which is described as a “fantastical architectural setting that offers miraculous moments in which individuals can encounter hummingbirds”… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Hudson Valley and Northeast’s Museums Start Reopening<\/h3>\n
By Nicki Donohue, July 29, 2020<\/p>\n
In Catskill, the Thomas Cole House’s interior remains closed to the public but guests can explore the estate grounds by reserving an “Outdoor Explore Kit,” which includes souvenirs, walking directions to Catskill Creek, and a guidebook… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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En Plein Air: Artists’ Haunts Beckon As the World Reopens<\/h3>\n
By Laura Beach, June 23, 2020<\/p>\n
Largely overshadowed by the visible frustration and fatigue of the past few months, creativity is on the rise. With everything from the museum blockbuster to the summer vacation season effectively upended, we are reassessing our engagement with the material world… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Redefining the “Sublime”: In the Footsteps of Thomas Cole<\/h3>\n
By Robert Titus, PhD, and Johanna Titus, May\/June 2020<\/p>\n
We are scientists: Robert is a geologist and Johanna is a biologist. Ours are the two leading sciences of the landscape. We are also resident’s of New York State’s Catskill Mountains… Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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New Book Explores Creative Homes and Spaces Where Art Was Made<\/h3>\n
By Charles Desmarais, April 27, 2020<\/p>\n
What books have you chosen for quarantine reading? I would not have thought first of a travel guidebook. But a new one that arrived in the mail last week\u00a0carried me across the U.S. on a tour so absorbing, I hardly noticed that the trip was made entirely by armchair…. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Earth Day 2070: A World Lost<\/h3>\n
Story and Photography by Pete Muller, April 2020<\/p>\n
As New York’s Hudson Valley was cleared to make way for agriculture and feed a thriving tannery industry, the 19th-century painter Thomas Cole lamented the destruction of his beloved forests…Read the full article here<\/a> |\u00a0 See an excerpt here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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In 1845 Hudson River School Founder Thomas Cole Argued That ‘Art Rekindles the Soul.’ Read an Excerpt From His Stirring Lecture.<\/h3>\n
April 16, 2020<\/p>\n
In 1845, three years before his death, the American painter Thomas Cole, who is widely regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, wrote a lecture on the value of art as a public and moral good. Art, he wrote…Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Critic’s Notebook: Thomas Cole, Leonard Bernstein, the Yale Series of Younger Poets & more.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
April 7, 2020<\/p>\n
Lecture on Art<\/i>, by Thomas Cole (Thomas Cole National Historic Site): The Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole\u2019s visionary nature was on display…Read here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Take Virtual Trip to the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Get Immersed in American Landscape Painting<\/h3>\n
March 16, 2020<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, offers an array of online programs covering the painter Thomas Cole, his period in America and…Read here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Major Collaborative Exhibition to Open in May at Olana State Historic Site and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
February 28, 2020<\/p>\n
Exhibit explores the theme of “cross pollination” in art and the environment from the 19th century to the contemporary moment…Read here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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With his camera obscura, Shi Guorui reinterprets the landscapes of the Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
By Meredith Mendelsohn, October 24, 2019<\/p>\n
Sometime last summer, a rectangular tent appeared in the woods off a trail in the Catskills…Read here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The View That Launched American Art<\/h3>\n
Podcast hosted by Davis Dunavin, September 20, 2019<\/p>\n
Two 19th century artists defined American landscape painting. Their art took them all over the world. But they always returned to the mountains and valleys around New York’s Hudson River….Listen here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Re-envisioning Cole’s Catskills<\/h3>\n
By Eleanor Gustafson, September 17, 2019<\/p>\n
In 2014 destiny brought Guorui to Catskill, New York, where he was inspired by the Hudson valley light and landscapes that so inspired Cole.<\/strong><\/p>\n
This fall you can see his results in\u00a0SHI GUORUI: Ab\/Sense-Pre\/Sense,<\/em>\u00a0opening at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site on September 22. We spoke to Kate Menconeri, director of exhibitions and collections and curator at the site and curator of the exhibition….Read here<\/a><\/p>\n
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‘Thomas Cole’s Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek’ Review: Elegies<\/h3>\n
By Barrymore Laurence Scherer, August 10, 2019<\/p>\n
An exhibition of the English-born painter’s lesser-known Hudson Valley scenes evinces his love for natural beauty and sorrow over its devastation.
\n<\/strong>Although the English-born painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is widely regarded…Read here<\/a><\/p>\n
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No. 402: Cole’s Catskill Creek<\/h3>\n
Podcast hosted by Tyler Green, July 28, 2019<\/p>\n
For the first time, the exhibition considers Cole’s paintings of Catskill Creek…Listen here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Timelessness in Works by Thomas Cole and Brice Marden<\/h3>\n
By Peter Schjeldahl, May 27, 2019<\/p>\n
Two small shows in the Hudson Valley hint at long spiritual rhythms that are not lost, though they may be occluded, in the staccato frenzies of of our day.
\n<\/strong>Two sublime small shows that will last the summer in towns along the Hudson River remind me of something that art is good for. Read here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole up the Creek<\/h3>\n
By Bruce Weber, May\/June 2019<\/p>\n
Only a short walk from Thomas Cole’s house and studio in upstate New York winds a stretch of Catskill Creek that the painter would return to depict again and again…Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Emily Cole’s Artwork takes Center Stage at Cole Historic Site<\/h3>\n
By Dave Lucas, March 8, 2019<\/p>\n
An artist with deep roots in upstate New York is celebrated this month with the first exhibition of her work in over a century…Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Surveying the scenery at the Albany Airport Gallery<\/h3>\n
Artists and writers take cues from Thomas Cole’s defense of natural beauty in “Landmark” exhibition<\/h5>\n
By Amy Griffin,\u00a0The Albany Times Union<\/em><\/p>\n
Landscape art and environmentalism have long been linked. Artists who are inspired by nature tend to want to preserve it. Though the focus of the environmental movement has evolved since the 19th century–from preserving natural treasures to averting global catastrophe–appreciation of all that nature has to offer has been a common thread. Read Here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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On Exhibit: ‘Landmark’ Looks at Environment and Us<\/h3>\n
At airport, Thomas Cole Works Brought into Modern Context<\/h5>\n
By Indiana Nash,\u00a0The Daily Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n
“Landmark” is a fitting exhibition, not only because it’s informed and inspired by Thomas Cole but also because it’s at the Albany International\u00a0 Airport, the lift-off point into sweeping aerial views of the Capital Region. Read Here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Hudson Talbott’s New Book On Thomas Cole and The Birth of American Art<\/h3>\n
By Joe Donahue,\u00a0WAMC<\/em><\/p>\n
Artist and author, Hudson Talbott, join us now to tell us about his new book, “picturing America: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Art.”
\nIt is a fascinating look at artist Thomas Cole’s life and takes young readers from his humble beginnings to his development of a new painting style that became America’s first formal art movement: the Hudson River school of painting. Read Here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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By Erica Chase-Salerno,\u00a0Hudson Valley One<\/em><\/p>\n
“All nature here is new to art. The mists were resting in the valley of the Hudson — the tops of mountains were visible on the other side — you might imagine them in another world. The fields in shadow were a most beautiful fresh green, the mountain side was brilliant though dark.”
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Discover the Thomas Cole National Historic Site
\n<\/strong>How did Englishman Thomas Cole catapult to the top of the 1800s US art game? The father of this new style of landscape painting, now known as the Hudson River School, had talent, skill and popularity. Read Here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Where Canvases Leap to Life: Eight stop trail in the Catskills takes you to scenes that inspired artists<\/h3>\n
By Ben Yagoda,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n
My wife and I were standing on a bridge by the side of Route 23A, outside of Catskill, NY, a bit more than a hundred miles up the Hudson River from New York City. Read Here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Hudson Talbott Illustrates Life of Thomas Cole<\/h3>\n
From Staff Reports,\u00a0Poughkeepsie Journal<\/em><\/p>\n
“Picturing America: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Art” is the latest book for children by Hudson Talbott.
\nThe 32-page picture book takes readers on a journey through the life of Thomas Cole, father of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, America’s first major art movement. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Albany International Airport and Thomas Cole Site Present New Exhibition<\/h3>\n
by Dave Lucas,\u00a0WAMC<\/em><\/p>\n
Albany International Airport’s Art & Culture Program and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill have partnered to present a new exhibition. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Autumn At The Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
by Joe Donahue,\u00a0WAMC<\/em><\/p>\n
The 2nd annual Hudson River Skywalk Arts Festival is on Sunday, September 30 at the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Olana. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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How Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Artists Helped Define a Nation<\/h3>\n
by Debra Bruno,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n
The Painters of the Hudson River School were grandiose, romantic, dramatic and brilliantly colorful. They also helped define the nation, championing wild America to a population that often saw nature as a thing to be feared and tamed, not celebrated. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole’s Historic Home Inspires Contemporary Artists<\/h3>\n
by\u00a0Antiques and the Arts Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n
Catskill, N.Y.–A new contemporary art exhibition, “Spectrum,” has opened at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, revealing a visual dialogue about color between 11 contemporary artists and Thomas Cole (1801-1848), founder of America’s first major art movement, the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Thomas Cole House, Olana, and Lyndhurst<\/h3>\n
by Jason Rosenfeld,\u00a0The Brooklyn Rail<\/em><\/p>\n
The\u00a0Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance\u00a0<\/em>CEDAR GROVE: THE THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE-MAY1-NOVEMBER 4, 2018<\/p>\n
Costume & Custom: Middle Eastern Threads at Olana
\n<\/em>OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE,HUDSON, NY-JUNE 17-NOVEMBER 25, 2018 Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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A Guide to Columbia and Greene Counties: Hudson and Catskill<\/h3>\n
by Brian K. Mahoney,\u00a0Chronogram<\/em><\/p>\n
The county seats of Hudson and Catskill are dissimilar in many respects, but their residents are passionate about the possibilities for their towns. We speak to the movers and shakers in the two communities about what makes them tick. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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6 Books to Read in September<\/h3>\n
by Brian K. Mahoney,\u00a0Chronogram<\/em><\/p>\n
Historic estates, exotic birds, troubled immigrants, deranged loners, and parishes dealing with the tainted legacy of the Catholic Church make up our September list. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Artist Who Gave America Its First Signature Art Form<\/h3>\n
by Meredith Mendelson,\u00a0Artsy<\/em><\/p>\n
Early 19th-century America was a place of growing affluence. As wealth from agriculture and industry accumulated, New York’s moneyed classes hungered for cultural clout to add a luster of civility to the rugged face of the young republic. And as the urbanization of New York City intensified, city dwellers yearned for the picturesque. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Thomas Cole House: A Kid-Friendly Historic Site in Catskill, NY<\/h3>\n
Catskill for Kids, Destinations<\/p>\n
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At the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, art, history, and nature converge. And it’s the kind of place that really lights up when inquisitive children arrive, so if your kids are interested in any of these subjects, definitely bring them along for a self-guided afternoon tour. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole to Open Contemporary Art Exhibition with 11 Artists Responding to the Hudson River School Artist’s Work<\/h3>\n
by ArtFix Daily<\/em><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has announced a new contemporary art exhibition SPECTURUM, opening August 14, that brings together the work of 11 contemporary artists that will be installed throughout the 19th-century historic home, studios, and grounds of the artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848) in Catskill, New York. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Ralph Gardner Jr: The Novel In Performance<\/h3>\n
by Ralph Gardner JR,\u00a0WAMC North-East Public Radio<\/em><\/p>\n
I was unaware that when Hunter Thompson was a young writer he typed out “The Great Gatsby” and the “Sun Also Rises” to deconstruct how F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway achieved their effects and created their masterpieces. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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How Thomas Cole Learned the ABCs of Landscape Art<\/h3>\n
by Sammy Dalati,\u00a0The Magazine Antiques<\/em><\/p>\n
Even in such early work as\u00a0The Clove, Catskills <\/em>(1827) and View of Monte video, the Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq.\u00a0<\/em>(1828), the facture and compositional strategies employed by Thomas Cole–a working-class boy from norther England, self-taught as an artist –demonstrated surprising conversance with European landscape paining of the time. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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A Guide to the Small Towns of Hudson Valley and the Catskills<\/h3>\n
by Amy Plitt, Curbed<\/em><\/p>\n
You don’t have to get too far outside of New York City–30, maybe 40 miles–before the landscape changes. Dense urban areas and suburban strip malls grow fewer and farther between, and a more bucolic New York emerges. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire, National Gallery, Review: We long to see more of this great American landscape painting in full flight<\/h3>\n
by Michael Glover, The Independent<\/em><\/p>\n
Too much familiar Constable and Turner, and not quite enough Cole and his American successors. <\/strong><\/p>\n
Now here’s a surprise. This exhibition of work by the landscape painter Thomas Cole, though described as a collaboration between two institutions, feels like a tariff-free American import.\u00a0Read Here..<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Exhibition review: Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire at the National Gallery, WC2<\/h3>\n
Thomas Cole was the first to capture the vastness of the States<\/p>\n
by Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n
“Can there be a country in the world better calculated than ours to exercise and to exalt the imagination…” asked De Witt Clinton in 1816. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Make America Decay Again-Thomas Cole and Ed Ruscha Review<\/h3>\n
by Jonathan Jones, The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n
American art was invented by a young man from Lancashire who emigrated from Liverpool in 1818, and by 1825-still in his early 20s-was being hailed in New York as an “American genius.” There had, of course, been painters in America before Thomas Cole. Read Here…\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Hudson River Bridge Adds Interpretive Signs for Pedestrians<\/h3>\n
by Associated Press, Times Union<\/em><\/p>\n
CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) –
\nPedestrians viewing the Hudson River from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge can now refer to a series of signs that include historical information.<\/p>\n
The six signs were installed as part of the Hudson River Skywalk Project, which will connect the Thomas National Historic Site in Catskill with the Olana State Historic Site across the river. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Public Meeting Tonight On Skywalk Connecting Olana, Thomas Cole Sites<\/h3>\n
by Dave Lucas,\u00a0Midday Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n
The in-progress Skywalk project connecting two New York sites is the subject of public meeting tonight in Greene County.
\nEarlier this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the creation of the Hudson River Skywalk Region. A $14.6 million Skywalk will connect two landmark historic sites–Olana State Historic Site in Hudson and Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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by Geddy Sveikauskas,\u00a0Hudson Valley One<\/em><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole: A Conservative Conservationist<\/h3>\n
by Jennifer Kabat,\u00a0The New York Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n
Every era gets its own Thomas Cole, the British-born, nineteenth century artist who ushered in a new age of American landscape painting. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was a precursor to artists like Grant Wood. Come the 1960s and 1970s, MoMA linked his brushwork to abstract expressionism. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Understanding American art by Environmentalist art by looking across the pond<\/h3>\n
by Benjamin Cassidy, The Berkshire Eagle<\/em><\/p>\n
Even as Thomas Cole painted American landscapes, his mind often inhabited terrain across the Atlantic Ocean. The England-born father of the Hudson River School artistic movement drew inspiration from artists across the pond, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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by Y.F.<\/p>\n
TWO centuries ago Thomas Cole Arrived on American shores, bringing with him from England a new landscape painting tradition perfect for the wild expanses of the new world. Cole also brought a zeal for warning about the perils that unchecked industry posed to the natural world, establishing one of painting’s first environmental critiques. “Atlantic Crossings”, an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that will travel to the National Gallery in London in June.Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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New Exhibition Opens at Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
By Sparrow<\/span><\/p>\n
“Thomas Cole invented the American sublime,” remarks Tim Barringer, an art history professor at Yale, speaking of the founder of the Hudson River School of art. Barringer is also co-curator of “picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance,” which opens on May 1 at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole’s Majestic Wilderness and Dark Satanic Mills: A Feast at The Met Looks at the Founder of the Hudson River School and the Visionaries who Inspired Him<\/h3>\n
By R.C. Baker\u00a0The Village Voice ,<\/em>\u00a0April 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
Thomas Cole, like us, lived in interesting times. Born in 1801, he grew up in an England disrupted by the industrial revolution and unsettled by the fervid passions of romanticism, where the poet and painter William Blake wrote of a “green and pleasant land” being overrun by “dark satanic mills.” Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole’s Sublime Art Opens At His National Historic Site May 1<\/h3>\n
By\u00a0Antiques and the Arts Weekly ,<\/em>\u00a0April 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site will open the exhibition “Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance” on May 1, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Thomas Cole’s arrival in America. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Hudson Talbott Introduces Children To Thomas Cole<\/h3>\n
By\u00a0Antiques and the Arts Weekly ,<\/em>\u00a0April 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
In an online version and softcover book (due to be published in September by Penguin Random House), author and illustrator Hudson Talbott introduces children to artist Thomas Cole, whose 200th anniversary of coming to America is being celebrated in 2018 with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings<\/h3>\n
By Joe Bucciero, The Brooklyn Rail,<\/em>\u00a0April 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
“All nature here is new to art, no Tivolis, Ternis, Mont Blancs, Plinlimmons, hackneyed and worn by the daily pencils of hundreds; but primeval forests, virgin lakes and waterfalls.” So rhapsodized British-born painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848) on the appeal of the American landscape. Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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An Online Story and Forthcoming Picture Book by Hudson Talbott Introduces 19th-Century Artist Thomas Cole to a New Generation<\/h3>\n
By\u00a0Artfix Daily<\/em>, March 2018.<\/p>\n
Beloved children’s book author and illustrator Hudson Talbott has teamed up with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site to present Thomas Cole’s story online for free to children of all ages.Read Here…<\/a><\/p>\n
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Scenic Viewpoints Added to NY Bridge’s Rebuilt Sidewalk<\/h3>\n
By Associated Press, The New York Times<\/em>, March 2018.<\/p>\n
HUDSON, N.Y.–Scenic viewpoints have been added to the rebuilt sidewalk on one of the New York state-operated bridges spanning the Hudson River between Albany and New York City.<\/p>\n
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday three viewpoints, each 50 feet long by 10 feet wide, have been added along the mile-long sidewalk on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge linking Greene and Columbia counties…Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole, American Moralist<\/h3>\n
Why this 19th-century master of the Hudson River landscape, who used his art to argue against industry’s assaults, is politically right for right now.<\/p>\n
By Holland Cotter, The New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0March 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” is gorgeous, politically right for right now, and a lesson in the mutability of art history…Read here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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By Alexandra Wolfe, The Wall Street Journal,<\/em>\u00a0January 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
The curators of a new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition might have titled it, “Everything you Knew About Thomas Cole.”<\/p>\n
Cole is known as the father of the Hudson River School, a group of American artists who painted dramatic outdoor panoramas. But “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” posits an artist with an international background and interests…Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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“Thomas Cole’s Jouney: Atlantic Crossings’ Review: Hudson River School Headmaster<\/h3>\n
By Barrymore Laurence Scherer,The Wall Street Journal,<\/em>\u00a0January 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
When, in 1848, the painter Thomas Cole suddenly died at age 47, his funeral oration was delivered by his celebrated friend William Cullen Bryant, the poet and journalist, who recalled the enthusiasm awakened by…pictures which carried the eye over scenes of wild grandeur peculiar to our country…and into the depths of skies…such as few but Cole could ever paint…Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole: ravishing — and still resonant<\/h3>\n
By Ariella Budick, The Financial Times,<\/em>\u00a0Februrary 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
Don’t be fooled by the ancient rivers and cloud-swathed peaks: Thomas Cole’s American landscapes are no more timeless than an “I’m With Her” button. He painted his visionary protests during the Andrew Jackson administration in the 1830s, and if they resonate with renewed vigour today, that’s partly because Jackson’s 21st-century admirer-in-chief inhabits the White House…Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings<\/h3>\n
By Jason Rosenfeld, The Brooklyn Rail,<\/em> March 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
In 2015 the painter Stephen Hannock and I curated “River Crossings” at Cedar Grove in Catskill, the home of Thomas Cole, and The Olana Partnership in Hudson, the home of Frederic Edwin Church, filling those loci of the evolution of American landscape painting with works by contemporary Hudson River Valley artists:…Read Here.<\/a> \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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‘Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance’ to Open in the Artist’s Studio<\/h3>\n
By Artfix Daily,\u00a0<\/em>February 8, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
(ArtfixDaily.com) To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Cole’s arrival from England in 1818, the Thomas Cole Site is partnering with the Yale Center for British Art to present the special exhibition *Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance<\/em>\u00a0in Thomas Cole’s New Studio, in Catskill, NY…**Read Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n*
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Voice for the Wilderness<\/h3>\n
By James D. Balestrieri,\u00a0American Fine Art Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>January 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
I spent my last birthday at Thomas Cole’s house and studio in Catskill, New York. The house, doubling as it did as his showroom – galleries as we know them did not exist in the United States much before the Civil War, and artists’ associations such as the National Academy of Design (which Cole had helped to found) only held annual exhibitions – was an architectural marvel in its humble way. …Read Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Sting and Thomas Cole: Artists on the Cutting Edge in their Own Times Meet in Spirit<\/h3>\n
By Dave Lucas,\u00a0WAMC, Northeast Public Radio,\u00a0<\/em>January 8, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n
This year marks the 200th anniversary of influential artist Thomas Cole’s first visit to the United States. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are paying tribute\u00a0 …Read Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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By Michael J. Lewis,\u00a0The New Criterion<\/em>,\u00a0December 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
It is a perfectly natural impulse for us to wish the house of a cherished writer to illuminate his works. We are strangley pleased to visit the houses\u00a0where Edgar Allen Poe boarded and find them cramped and forlorn. Or to discover that Sunnyside, Washington Irving’s house on the Hudson River, is a fantasy of a romantic Dutch cottage that might have loomed in one of his stories, mysterious in the\u00a0moonlight…Our interest in a writer is what happens in his mind and not outside his window. Not so with the painter, for whom the house, and its site, can mean everything…Read Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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‘Scenes of Solitude’ From the Hudson River School Artists<\/h3>\n
By John Hanc,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, October 23, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
…The show, which opened in July and will remain until 2019, has attracted visitors from as far away as Germany. Still, it can be seen as a sort of opening act for a much-anticipated exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings,” opening in January 2018. (A third major exhibit, at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y., will be staged in May, featuring works of the school from Yale University’s collection…Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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KIKI SMITH:\u00a0From the Creek<\/em><\/h3>\n
By Steven Pestana,\u00a0Brooklyn Rail<\/em>, October 6, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
From August 12 – November 19, visitors enter the domestic bliss of Thomas Cole’s Federal\u00a0style home and are immediately greeted with the sensibility of his 21st century Catskill neighbor, the multidisciplinary artist Kiki Smith….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Famous Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole takes global presence; Thomas Cole House celebrates with an extended season<\/h3>\n
By Anthony Fiducia,\u00a0Columbia-Greene Media<\/em>, September 26, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site leaders will extend the 2017 season to celebrate recent attendance growth and plan to have the fames artist as the subject of two major exhibitions. Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the National Gallery in London….Read Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Review Sanford Gifford in the Catskills at the Thomas Cole House<\/h3>\n
By Bruce Weber,\u00a0The Magazine Antiques<\/em>, September 6, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Among members of the Hudson River School of painting, Sanford Gifford (1823-1880) has long been considered one of the most brilliant painters of light and air. His art is the subject of the intimate, beautifully curated exhibition\u00a0Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills<\/em> on view through October 29th….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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By Sparrow,\u00a0Chronogram<\/em>, September 1, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
“She’s very playful,” says Kate Menconeri, curator of\u00a0Thomas Cole House. Menconeri is speaking of\u00a0Kiki Smith, whose exhibition “From the Creek” will remain at the National Historic Site in Catskill until October 29. This is the second installment of “Open House,” a series in which contemporary artists react to the Cole homestead. Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of art, lived in the home until his death in 1848…..Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Contemporary Art Steams up the Hudson<\/h3>\n
By Nancy Princenthal, The New York Times<\/em>, August 25, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
This summer, a bounty of classic and modern artwork has made its way to venues dotted along the river valley….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Kiki Smith solo exhibit opens at Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill<\/h3>\n
Hudson Valley One<\/em>, August 10, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The life’s work of German-born artist Kiki Smith has been celebrated by critics and audiences and shown in prestigious exhibition venues around the world since the 1980s….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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By Linda Gentalen, The Register-Star <\/em>and Daily Mail,\u00a0<\/em>,\u00a0July\u00a029, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The season opening of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site last month was stunning, unveiling two landmark exhibitions: “The Parlors” and “Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills.” As a Board Member since 2005 of this historic site in Catskill, I couldn’t help but marvel….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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The Thomas Cole Site Project Marries Historic Restoration, New Technology<\/h3>\n
Antiques and The Arts Weekly<\/em>,\u00a0July\u00a028, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site which opened for the season in early May, recently introduced its newly restored parlors in the 1815 home of Thomas Cole….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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By Lynn Freehill-Maye,\u00a0Time Out New York,\u00a0<\/em>June 27, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The ruggedly beautiful Catskill Mountains have a multicentury history of creative inspiration and adventure. Washington Irving set \u201cRip Van Winkle\u201d among their peaks, and Thomas Cole\u2019s paintings of the area wound up radically changing how artists depict landscapes….Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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24 Hours in the Catskills: For art lovers, upstate New York offers plenty of options beyond the beaten path<\/h3>\n
By Alexis Soloski, Village Voice,\u00a0<\/em>May 30, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Take the short, steep, mildly treacherous hike up to Kaaterskill Falls, and you’s find a rushing cataract that plunges 260 feet in two lacy drops. You’ll also see one of the most painted views of the nineteenth century, a favored subject of the Hudson River School, an art movement that ruled American visual culture for several decades…Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Layer by layer, Conservator Thomas Cole<\/h3>\n
By Margaret Saliske, Poughkeepsie Journal,\u00a0<\/em>May 30, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Even for those of us well-versed in the Hudson River School of painting, the first major art movement in America, the discovery was stunning. Hidden under a century of paint in the parlors of the 1815 home of Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, are elaborately painted borders…Read Here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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Backtracks in Time: Betsy Jacks<\/h3>\n
Hosted by Jack Sencabaugh, WGXC Radio,\u00a0<\/em>May 23, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Betsy Jacks, executive director of the Thomas Cole House at Cedar Grove in the Village of Catskill, talks about how Cole came to Catskill, the history of the house and efforts to preserve it, and ongoing renovation projects…Listen Here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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The 7 Best Weekend Getaways for NYC-Based Art Lovers<\/h3>\n
By Elizabeth Fazarre, Architectural Digest,\u00a0<\/em>May 22, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
From Storm King to the birthplace of the Hudson River School, these cultural destinations are well worth the short journey from the city… Read Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole comes to life thanks to multimedia renovations at Cedar Grove in Catskill<\/h3>\n
By Lynn Woods, Hudson Valley One,\u00a0<\/em>May 18, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills<\/em> at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY, features paintings by the 19th-century landscape painter Sanford Gifford, whose work was inspired by Thomas Cole.\u00a0…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Sanford Gifford in the Catskills includes Walking-and-Driving Tour of Art Scenes<\/h3>\n
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Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills<\/em> at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY, features paintings by the 19th-century landscape painter Sanford Gifford, whose work was inspired by Thomas Cole.\u00a0…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Guide to Hudson New York and Nearby Points of Interest<\/h3>\n
By Nicole Anderson,\u00a0The Magazine Antiques,\u00a0May 16, 2017<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
The English-born artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848) tolerated no ill comparisons to his adopted home in upstate New York. As he wrote to a friend in 1842: “Must I tell you that neither the Alps nor the Apennines, no, nor even Aetna itself, have dimmed, in my eyes, the beauty of our own Catskills?”.\u00a0…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Cole Historic Site Opens for the Season with New Exhibits<\/h3>\n
Hosted by Joe Donahue, The Round Table, WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, <\/em>Tuesday, May 9, 2017\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Parlors\u201d is an immersive installation that combines technology and meticulous historic restoration of the two parlors of Cole’s 1815 Home, the rooms where America’s first major art movement was born. It features a stunning discovery revealed during the restoration: the earliest-known, interior decorative painting by an American artist…Listen Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Cole Historic Site Opens for the Season with New Exhibits<\/h3>\n
The New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>Wednesday, May 3, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is open for the season in the Hudson Valley with new exhibits. The Catskill attraction used to be the home of the painter who inspired the Hudson River School art movement in the 19th century…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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OUR VIEW: Cole\u00a0exhibit for the ages<\/h3>\n
Register-Star,\u00a0<\/em>Tuesday, May 2, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Despite the threat to local arts posed by federal budget cuts sought for the National Endowment for the Arts, officials at the Thomas Cole Historic Site in Catskill forged ahead with their most ambitious exhibit to date…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole National Historic Site opening on Tuesday in Catskill to feature restored parlors of 1815 home<\/h3>\n
By\u00a0Freeman Staff,\u00a0Daily Freeman,<\/em> Sunday, April 30, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Despite the threat to local arts posed by federal budget cuts sought for the National Endowment for the Arts, officials at the Thomas Cole Historic Site in Catskill forged ahead with their most ambitious exhibit to date…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Historic Restoration at Thomas Cole Site; “Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills” Opens Season<\/h3>\n
By Dave Lucas, Midday Magazine, WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, \u00a0<\/em>Friday, April 28, 2017\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole Historic Site in Catskill is showing off its renovations this week. WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas got a tour of the main home Thursday, experiencing both an “immersive installation” and the “Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills” exhibit…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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‘Darkness Visible’: Cole House previews historic exhibit<\/h3>\n
By Daniel Zuckerman,\u00a0Catskill Daily Mail, <\/em>Friday, April 28, 2017\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Members of the media were given a preview of the reopening of the main home at the Thomas Cole Historic Site in Catskill with an immersive installation and the exhibit “Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills,” curated by Kevin Avery…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole & His Cedar Grove<\/h3>\n
Text by Jennifer Holz, Photos by George Holz, Upstate Diary, <\/em>Thursday, April 27, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The air is buzzing at Cedar Grove, 19th-century landscape painter Thomas Cole’s country home in Catskill, NY, where historians recently uncovered century-old decorative artworks hidden beneath layers of paint …Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Painting in the Footsteps of Thomas Cole<\/h3>\n
By Steven Weinberg, Hyperallergic,\u00a0Thursday<\/em>, April 27, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Cole wanted you to stare off into the impending destruction of a landscape and ponder the sublime beauty of it all \u2014 which, man, I did…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Cedar Grove to reopen in May<\/h3>\n
By Jane Anderson, Hudson Valley Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>Wednesday, April 26, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
A new multimedia installation at Thomas Cole’s homestead makes you feel like the artist himself is giving the tour…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Actor Jamie Bell Brings Cole to Life<\/h3>\n
By Daniel Zuckerman, Catskill Daily Mail,\u00a0<\/em>Saturday, April 22, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site\u2019s new interactive exhibit is receiving a bit of star power with \u201cBilly Elliot\u201d star Jamie Bell supplying the voice of Cole for the exhibit, the site\u2019s executive director said Thursday…Read\u00a0entire article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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Connecting with the Land<\/h3>\n
By James D. Balestrieri, American Fine Art Magazine,<\/em>\u00a0Issue 33, May\/June 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
One of the many cool aspects of Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills<\/em>, a new exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, is the “walking-and-driving-experience” that allows visitors to see the very views that inspired…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Thomas Cole\u00a0murals uncovered on walls of Catskills home in New York State<\/h3>\n
The Independent,<\/em>\u00a0March 9, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Not only did Thomas Cole paint the lush mountain landscapes that inspired the Hudson River School art movement of the 19th century, he also painted on the walls of his home. Lost beneath layers of paint for more than a century, the patterned borders below the celings were rediscovered…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Lost art of Thomas Cole uncovered in his NY home<\/h3>\n
Associated Press,<\/em>\u00a0March 8, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Our view: Tourism gains momentum<\/h3>\n
The Register-Star,<\/em> February 23, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Nine years ago, the Olana National Historic Site in Greenport potted about $8 million for the local economy. Jump ahead to 2016, and the THomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill pulled in almost $2 million…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Cole House, Olana have pumped million into local economy<\/h3>\n
By Daniel Zuckerman, The Daily Mail,<\/em> February 22, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole Historic Site announced Tuesday that results of an economic impact study show that the site has a nearly $1.9 million impact on the county, up 44 percent from a previous 2010 study…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Follow the Footsteps of the first American artists<\/h3>\n
Group Tour Magazine<\/em>, February 20, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
It might be hard to imagine, but in the early 19th century the concept of being an American and creating Amercican art was not well recognized. Many American artists were searching for a style of art they could call their own. Then along came Thomas Cole (1801-1848)…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
A sneak preview of the Thomas Cole House restoration<\/h3>\n
By Geddy Sveikauskas, Hudson Valley One<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>February 19, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
Thomas Cole\u2019s home on Spring Street in Catskill has left behind its near-death experience of the 1970s and as an independent non-profit organization affiliated with the National Park Service has been engaged in a recovery that would have seemed miraculous a generation ago…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site to Host Exhibition of 19-th Century Landscape Painter Sanford Gifford<\/h3>\n
ArtfixDaily<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>February 1, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
The exhibition will focus on his paintings of the Catskills \u2013 with works loaned by Harvard, Yale, and other leading institutions; it is curated by Dr. Kevin Avery, Senior Research Scholar at The Metropolitan Museum of Art…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Thomas Cole Site details changes coming with May reopening<\/h3>\n
By Tim Blydenburgh, Albany Times Union<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>January 25, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Through hidden audio and moving-graphics presentations, visitors will be able to hear the thoughts of Thomas Cole (1801-48) and the historic conversations that took place in the parlors of his 1815 home, where America\u2019s first major art movement, the Hudson River School of painting, was founded…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
My View: Transforming the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
By Betsy Jacks, The Daily Mail, <\/em>January 13, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
The home of the landscape artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848) in Catskill has been of major cultural significance since he lived there, and it became a National Historic Site in 1998. The opportunity now is to transform it into a destination renowned worldwide as the birthplace of American art…Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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The Bibliophilist, Thomas Cole: Artist as Architect<\/h3>\n
By Valerie A. Balint<\/span>, Nineteenth Century<\/em> (published by the Victorian Society in America),V. 36 No.2 – November 2016\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
To stand in the brand-new building where Thomas Cole: Artist as Architect<\/em> is on view at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York is to take in the splendor of a soaring ceiling and rich red walls, replete with a visual feast of drawings, paintings, architectural renderings and books, all of which explore Cole’s lifelong interest in architecture…\u00a0Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Schumer pushing for two new historic restoration projects<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Andrew Banas<\/span>, News 10 ABC\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0– November 23, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n
At the foot of the Catskills lays a house that is over 200-years-old, but the people who work there say they are still finding new surprises every day…\u201cWe were interested in restoring these rooms to the way it looked when Thomas Cole lived here,\u201d Jacks said. So, they hired a painter to help. \u201cBut what he found was really extraordinary,\u201d Jacks said…\u00a0Read\u00a0entire article and watch video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Cole House Finds Art in Audio\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Greg Hudson<\/span>, Columbia-Greene Media\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0October 8, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n
Curators at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill have unveiled a new audio program which will enable visitors to experience a guided tour of the site at their own pace…\u00a0Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Nature Builds<\/span>\/We Cover at Thomas Cole House<\/h3>\n
By <\/span>William Jaeger, The Albany Times Union<\/em> – August 24, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n
“Nature Builds<\/span>\/We Cover” at Thomas Cole House. Brightening up the old place. Exhibit features work of artist who blends sculpture, painting. …<\/span> “Nature<\/span> Builds<\/span>\/We Cover” makes the younger man’s work surprising and fresh again…\u00a0Read\u00a0entire article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
The Painter Thomas Cole, and His Architectural Ambitions<\/h3>\n
By Joyce Beckenstein, The New York Times – <\/em>May 27, 2016<\/p>\n
This year, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site celebrates the construction of Cole\u2019s New Studio, a replica built upon the footprint of the original building, and according to the artist\u2019s architectural plan. The space\u2019s inaugural exhibition, \u201cThomas Cole: The Artist as Architect,\u201d through Oct. 30, is a pleasant surprise…\u00a0Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
Thomas Cole as Architect Exhibit to Open at Artist’s NY Home<\/h3>\n
By<\/span>\u00a0THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, CATSKILL, NY\u00a0– Jan 22, 2016<\/p>\n
The inaugural exhibit has been announced for a reconstructed building located at the upstate New York home of the founder of the Hudson River School of art.<\/p>\n
Officials at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill say the exhibit will focus on the landscape artist’s little-known contributions to American architecture. Cole, who died in 1848, was one of the designers of the\u00a0 Ohio<\/a>\u00a0Statehouse in Columbus….\u00a0 Read entire article\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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Over $600K Awarded to Thomas Cole Site for Interior Restoration<\/strong><\/h3>\n
By Artfix Daily<\/em> – September 14, 2015<\/p>\n
Periwinkle blue walls in the foyer, lavender walls in the West Parlor, a red and gold carpet with pyramids and birds-of-paradise, and hand-painted borders by Thomas Cole himself on the walls \u2026 . These are some of the elements of the original d\u00e9cor of the first-floor rooms of Cole\u2019s 1815 home that will be restored as a result of two major federal grants that were recently awarded to the\u00a0Thomas Cole Historic Site<\/a>: $460,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $150,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services….\u00a0 Read entire article<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
Thomas Cole’s Art Studio to Be Recreated<\/strong><\/h3>\n
by Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>– July 23, 2015<\/p>\n
The 19th-century painter Thomas Cole built an art studio with gingerbread woodwork and Hudson River views in Catskill, N.Y., but he enjoyed it for only a year or so before his death in 1848. Some brick and wooden fragments survive from the building, which was torn down in the early 1970s, while his nearby house, known as Cedar Grove, has been preserved as the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/a>. This summer, contractors are finishing a reproduction of Cole\u2019s design on the studio\u2019s original foundation, basing it on vintage photos, sketches and paintings…\u00a0 Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
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Funds secured to restore wall paintings by Thomas Cole\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
By WNYT Staff, WNYT<\/em> – July 18, 2015<\/p>\n
19th century Landscape artist Thomas Cole made his home in Catskill. His homestead surrounded by the beauty of the mountain range that was the subject of much of his art.\u00a0But nobody knew that inside the home, Cole surrounded himself with art as well.\u00a0 At least, until they were trying to figure out the original color of the parlor…\u00a0Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n
Restorer unearths historic paintings hidden in home of American master<\/h3>\n
by Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>– July 2, 2015<\/p>\n
It was supposed to be just a quick paint job, a few days\u00a0at most. But when refurbisher\u00a0Matthew Mosca began chipping away at\u00a0decades\u00a0of old paint coating the walls in\u00a0the historic home of artist\u00a0Thomas Cole, he was startled to discover\u00a0a tangle of\u00a0delicate designs\u00a0buried beneath. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to believe this, but there\u2019s actually hand-painted drapery and thorns on the wall here,\u201d…\u00a0Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
Unknown Thomas Cole Paintings Found at His Home<\/h3>\n
By\u00a0Nate Schweber, The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>– July 1, 2015<\/p>\n
CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 Late last year, Matthew J. Mosca, a specialist in historic paint finishes, gazed up at what looked like a scrap of wallpaper. It was jutting up from an old coat of red paint covering the walls of a pantry inside the yellow-brick farmhouse where the 19th-century artist\u00a0Thomas Cole<\/a>\u00a0displayed paintings that revolutionized American ideas about art and wilderness. But when Mr. Mosca climbed a ladder, he found it was not wallpaper, but a bold black decorative pattern…\u00a0 Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
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Landscape Painting Discovered on Wall in Former Thomas Cole Home\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
By\u00a0WNYT Staff,\u00a0WNYT<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
CATSKILL, N.Y.\u00a0– There’s a new historic discovery in Greene County. Imagine chipping away at paint prepping to throw a new coat on, and discovering a priceless work of art. That’s what happened at the old residence of Thomas Cole. Now, Senator Chuck Schumer is asking for about $600,000 from The National Endowment for the Humanities to get the rest of that painting uncovered and restored….\u00a0Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n
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‘River Crossings’ a Contemporary Art Exhibition at 2 Historic Sites of the Hudson River School <\/strong><\/h3>\n
By Daniel Van Benthuysen, The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>– May 28, 2015<\/p>\n
WHEN warm weather arrives, artists by the hundreds, including me, venture outside with paint boxes and portable easels….\u00a0Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
Olana, Thomas Cole site team up for an artsy house party<\/strong><\/h3>\n
By Amy Biancolli, The Albany Times Union\u00a0<\/em>– May 1, 2015<\/p>\n
When Thomas Cole and Frederic Church open their homes to a contemporary art exhibit on Sunday, the hosts will be nowhere to be seen. They did, after all, die in 1848 and 1900. But they’ll still be chatting up a\u00a0storm… Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
Additional Exhibition Coverage for \u201cRiver Crossings”:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal<\/a>
\n The Rogovoy Report<\/a>
\n ABC News: New and Now: Lilac Fests, Hudson River Art, Night Exhibit<\/a>
\n Stephen Hannock sets the stage for \u201cRiver Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home\u201d<\/a>
\n Artist Pension Trust<\/a>
\n Word Pond Blog<\/a>
\n The Barlow Hotel Blog<\/a>
\n PACE Gallery-Thomas Nozkowski<\/a>
\n River Crossings Exhibit Brings Contemporary Art to the Mid-Hudson<\/a>
\n I Love Hudson<\/a>
\n Jerry Gretzinger highlights his work for River Crossings\u00a0<\/a>
\n Contemporary Exhibit Set For Thomas Cole, Olana Sites<\/a>
\n Catskill unveils proposal for cross-Hudson shuttle<\/a>
\n New York Times- Cedar Grove, Peabody Essex and Other Niche Museums Foray Into Contemporary Art<\/a>
\n Spectre Arts- \u201cContemporary Artists Head North to Pay Homage to the Hudson Valley\u2019s Artistic Past\u201d<\/a>
\n Greene County Council on the Arts<\/a>
\n Auction Central News- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d\u00a0<\/a>
\n On the Scene- \u201cOlana and Thomas Cole to Host Joint Exhibition,\u00a0River Crossings<\/em>\u201c<\/a>
\nNew York Times- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d<\/a>
\n Metro Pictures Gallery- Cindy Sherman<\/a>
\n Catskill Daily Mail- \u201cOUR VIEW: Mr. Cole and Mr. Church, together again\u201d<\/a>
\n Register Star- \u201cCole, Church to Meet in the Abstract\u201d<\/a>
\n Hyperallergic \u201cArt Movements\u201d<\/a>
\n New York Observer- \u201cContemporary Artists Head North to Pay Homage to the Hudson Valley\u2019s Artistic Past\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n New Jersey Herald- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Troy Record- \u201cNew York State News In Brief: Hudson River Historic Sites Hosting Art Exhibit\u201d<\/a>
\n Saratogian- \u201cNew York State News In Brief: Hudson River Historic Sites Hosting Art Exhibit\u201d\u00a0<\/a>
\n IMBY.com- \u201cLandmark Contemporary Art Exhibition Opening May 2015?<\/a>
\n Yahoo! News- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n ABC News- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n The Washington Post- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Newsday- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Minneapolis Star Tribune- \u201c2 New York historic sites linked to Hudson River School hosting contemporary art exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Tampa Tribune- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n San Antonio Express News- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n The Washington Times- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Explore-Hudson-Valley.com AP Story from Yahoo! News<\/a>
\n Explore-Hudson-Valley.com AP Story from New York Observer<\/a>
\n Daily Freeman- \u201cThomas Cole, Olana historic sites to host contemporary art exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Glens Falls Post-Star \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n The Daily Star (Oneonta)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Winnipeg Free Press- \u201c2 New York historic sites linked to Hudson River School hosting contemporary art exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Times Herald-Record (Middletown)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Beaumont (TX) Enterprise- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Lewiston Morning Tribune (ID)- \u201cArt going on exhibit at Hudson Valley sites\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n WRAL-TV (Raleigh-Durham)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n CBS6-TV (Albany, NY)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n WHAM-TV (Rochester, NY)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n WNYT-TV (Albany, NY)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n WTEN-TV News 10 (Albany, NY)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n WISH-TV (Indianapolis, IN)- \u201cHudson River Historic Sites Hosting Contemporary Art Exhibit\u201d (AP)<\/a>
\n Albany Times Union- \u201cCole, Church sites open doors: Contemporary artists join 19th century works for project\u201d<\/a>
\n Albany Times Union \u2013 Online \u201cChuck Close, Maya Lin, others in upcoming exhibit crossing the Hudson\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
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Exhibition coverage for Master, Mentor, Master: Thomas Cole & Frederic Church<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\nThe New York Times: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/14\/nyregion\/an-exhibition-on-frederic-edwin-church-and-thomas-cole-in-catskill-ny.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n
Wall Street Journal: http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/art-review-master-mentor-master-thomas-cole-frederic-church-1402347440#printMode<\/a><\/p>\n
Artfix:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.artfixdaily.com\/calendar\/print\/7129-thomas-cole-and-frederic-church-master-mentor-master<\/a><\/p>\n
The Daily Mail:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.thedailymail.net\/news\/article_ec71a1a4-e239-11e3-9aa2-001a4bcf887a.html<\/a><\/p>\n
The New York Times:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/08\/nyregion\/events-in-westchester-for-june-8-14-2014.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n
iloveny:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.iloveny.com\/thebeat\/post\/2014\/2\/Master-Mentor-Master-Thomas-Cole-Frederic-Church-Exhibition-Now-on-View\/7748\/#.U-OAo_ldVqU<\/a><\/p>\n
Hudson Valley Magazine:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.hvmag.com\/Hudson-Valley-Magazine\/Calendar\/index.php\/name\/Thomas-Cole-Historic-Site-presents-Thomas-Cole-Frederic-Church-Master-Mentor-Master\/event\/12154\/<\/a><\/p>\n
WAMC:\u00a0 http:\/\/wamc.org\/post\/master-mentor-master-thomas-cole-frederic-church-thomas-cole-historic-site<\/a><\/p>\n
About Town:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.abouttown.us\/index.php\/events-calendar\/details\/5134-Master-Mentor-MasterThomas-Cole–Frederic-Church<\/a><\/p>\n
Hudson Valley Mercantile:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.hvmercantile.com\/tag\/master-mentor-master\/<\/a><\/p>\n
Almanac:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com\/2014\/05\/16\/colechurch-exhibit-opens-this-sunday-with-lecture-in-hudson-reception-in-catskill\/<\/a><\/p>\n
Chronogram:\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chronogram\/status\/456443471490863105<\/a><\/p>\n
Chronogram:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.chronogram.com\/hudsonvalley\/thomas-cole-and-frederic-church-master-mentor-master\/Content?oid=2238891<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.zvents.com\/catskill_ny\/events\/show\/369643183-thomas-cole-frederic-church-master-mentor-master<\/a><\/p>\n
Great Northern Catskills:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.greatnortherncatskills.com\/arts-culture\/thomas-cole-national-historic-site<\/a><\/p>\n
Art Museum Touring:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.artmuseumtouring.com\/Thomas-Cole.html<\/a><\/p>\n
Questroyal Fine Art:\u00a0 http:\/\/hrs-art.com\/2014\/02\/thomas-cole-frederic-church-exhibition\/<\/a><\/p>\n
New York History Blog:\u00a0 http:\/\/newyorkhistoryblog.org\/2014\/05\/12\/master-mentor-master-thomas-cole-and-frederic-church\/<\/a><\/p>\n
Coco Todo:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.cocotodo.com\/event\/12686<\/a><\/p>\n
Questroyal Fine Art:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.veooz.com\/photos\/wH8mMJB.html<\/a><\/p>\n
Daily Voice:\u00a0 http:\/\/rye.dailyvoice.com\/events\/classes-lectures\/783908\/thomas-cole-frederic-church-master-mentor-master<\/a><\/p>\n
AFA News:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.afanews.com\/home\/item\/2602-%E2%80%98master-mentor-master%E2%80%99-examines-teacher-student-relationship-between-thomas-cole-and-frederic-church<\/a><\/p>\n
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June 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n
Albert Bierstadt’s Paintings Now at Thomas Cole Site<\/h3>\n
By Annette Blaugrund,\u00a0Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n
Albert Bierstadt! The name immediately conjures up monu\u00admental vistas of America\u2019s Far West. Even in his 1902 obitu\u00adary, the only hint that this artist ever worked in the East was the title of one painting, On the Saco, New Hampshire. Today, as in 1902, Bierstadt is best remembered for his dramatic and atmospheric paintings of the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite, California, Wyoming, and Colorado. The focus of this article, however, is on Bierstadt\u2019s lesser-known landscape paintings of New York and New England… Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
April 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n
Hudson River Schooling<\/h3>\n
By Ralph Gardner Jr., The Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>– April 29, 2013<\/p>\n
My summer plans are set: I’m going to follow the Hudson River School Art Trail. Actually, it’s not quite as ambitious an undertaking as it might sound, such as traversing the full length of the Appalachian Trail which runs between Georgia and Maine. I suspect I can do it in an afternoon or two… Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n
Grand Romance<\/h3>\n
By Jenna Lundin, VOGUE Magazine\u00a0<\/em>– April 27, 2010<\/p>\n
Writings about New York\u2019s celebrated Hudson River School\u2014the nineteenth-century pioneers of American landscape painting that reached its heyday in the mid 1800\u2019s\u2014rarely mention the female contingent that painted alongside such famous male practitioners as Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Frederic Church. Now, for the first time, an exhibition opening Sunday at the Thomas Cole historic site in Catskill, New York, will focus exclusively on the women of the movement… Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
Women Artists of the Hudson River School<\/h3>\n
By Jennifer Krieger, Antiques & Fine Art Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n
The achievements of these women\u2014who broke the bounds of imposed gender restrictions to carve out lives of accomplishment, adventure and independence\u2014appear all the more extraordinary when one considers the historical and social context within which they took place… Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
2009<\/strong><\/p>\n
Taking in the Views That Led to Great Art<\/h3>\n
By Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times<\/em> –\u00a0October 9, 2009<\/p>\n
A hiker can follow the Hudson River School Art Trail and wind up at the sites that inspired some of America\u2019s important early works… Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
River Views of the Hudson River School<\/h3>\n
By Elizabeth B. Jacks, American Art Review<\/em><\/p>\n
Only ten years ago, Thomas Cole\u2019s home stood in ruins. The graceful Federal style 1815 Main House was shedding roof shingles with each gust of wind, and a pool of water filled the basement after pipes had frozen and burst. … Read entire article<\/a><\/p>\n
2006<\/strong><\/p>\n
A Natural Canvas<\/h3>\n
By Patricia Harris and David Lyon, The Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n
CATSKILL, N.Y. In the typical Hudson River School painting, masses of cumulus clouds rise above an outsize vista of river and mountains. We always figured that those scenes were embellished by artistic license until we visited the painters’ haunts where the northern Catskill Mountains meet the Hudson River Valley.<\/p>\n
As we crossed the Hudson on the high bridge at Castleton, the scenery was in our faces. We looked downriver past Rattlesnake and Coxsackie islands, and saw heaps of…Read entire article<\/a>… (1303 words)<\/p>\n
2005<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Hudson River School<\/h3>\n
By Susan Catto, The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n
We want to see some of the sights that the Hudson River School painted, if any of those places still exist. Can you suggest an itinerary, book or pamphlet that would guide us? Read entire article<\/a>…<\/p>\n
Found underground<\/h3>\n
By Bonnie Langston, Daily Freeman<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/em>January 21, 2005<\/p>\n
The next Sunday salon at the Catskill home of Thomas Cole, founder of the famed 19th-century Hudson River School of painting, will be led by a man who learned of the artist a relatively short time ago and in a rather unusual venue – a New York City subway stop. Read entire article<\/a>…<\/p>\n
2004<\/strong><\/p>\n
Restored studio paints a life<\/h3>\n
By Timothy Cahill, Times Union<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/em>September 19, 2004<\/p>\n
“Do you know that I have got a new painting-room?” wrote Thomas Cole to fellow painter Asher B. Durand near the end of 1839. “It answers pretty well … and being removed from the noise and bustle of the house, is really charming.” Read entire article<\/a>…<\/p>\n
Inside the artist’s studio: Cole’s work space being restored<\/h3>\n
By Jonathan Ment, Daily Freeman –\u00a0<\/em>September 12, 2004<\/p>\n
An old barn behind the Thomas Cole house on Spring Street in Catskill has been an antiques shop, an apartment house and, yes, a residence for animals. Read entire article<\/a>…<\/p>\n
An American Virtuoso of Urgent visions<\/h3>\n
Timothy Cahill, Times Union\u00a0<\/em>– August 15, 2004<\/p>\n
“To walk with nature as a poet,” wrote Thomas Cole, “is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.” Read entire article<\/a>…<\/p>\n
Cole’s 19th-century art studio getting a facelift<\/h3>\n
Fred Johnsen, Daily Freeman\u00a0<\/em>– March 6, 2004<\/p>\n
Thomas Edison had Menlo Park, Theodore Roosevelt had Sagamore Hill, and within these places were “inner sanctums.” For Edison his laboratory, for Roosevelt his trophy room. Read entire article<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The Thomas Cole National Historic Site presents the exhibit ‘Circles of Influence: Thomas Cole and the American Landscape Movement’<\/h3>\nby Joe Donahue, August 19, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Circles of Influence: Thomas Cole & The American Landscape Movement<\/h3>\nby James D. Balestrieri, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, July 31, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The 25 most influential works of American culture<\/h3>\nby Washington Post Staff, July 15, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Up the Hudson and Into the Heart of America<\/h3>\nby Megan Pidcock, July 13, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

American Artists Are Still Looking for Utopia<\/h3>\nby M. H. Miller, June 15, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250<\/h3>\nby Rhea Nayyar, June 12, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Emma Davidson Tribbs Takes the Lead at Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nby Lambeth Hochwald, June 9, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Review: Thomas Cole Show Reveals the Man Behind the Hudson River School<\/h3>\nby William Jaeger, June 6, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n

What did the Hudson River School Painters See?<\/h3>\nby Kim Beil, visuals by Tony Cenicola, May 25, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THOMAS COLE: AN AMERICAN VISIONARY, MAUREEN DOUGHERTY, AND SENSE OF PLACE<\/h3>\nby David Ebony, May 4, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

America 250 Calendar: Ways to Celebrate the Nation Across the Nation<\/h3>\nby WSJ Arts in Review Staff, May 2, 2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Cole: How the Catskills Inspired American Landscape Art<\/h3>\nby Ted Reinstein, August 25, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n

Our Go-To Guide to New York\u2019s Upstate Art Weekend<\/h3>\nby\u00a0Sarah Cascone & Brian Boucher & Eileen Kinsella & Min Chen, July 17, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n

10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip<\/h3>\nby Maya Pontone, <\/span><\/span>July 15, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n

Best Kept Secrets Podcast<\/h3>\nHost Mark Gustavson, <\/span><\/span>June 17, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n

10 Upstate Art Weekend Destinations Worth the Trip<\/h3>\nby Maya Pontone, <\/span><\/span>July 15, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n

A look into the new exhibition “Emily Cole: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses” at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nby Joe Donahue, June 26, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n

ART REVIEW: In ‘Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses,’ artists engage Emily Cole\u2019s botanical legacy in bold new ways<\/h3>\nby Jennifer Huberdeau, June 13, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n

Art to See on Day Trips From New York City This Spring<\/h3>\nHilarie M. Sheets, May 1, 2025<\/p>\n

Emily Cole, Daughter of Hudson River School Icon, Shines in Overdue Museum Show<\/h3>\nSarah Cascone, April 16, 2025<\/p>\n

Five Objects That Make You Consider the Great Beyond<\/h3>\nPriya Chhaya, October 15, 2024<\/p>\n

Native Prospects<\/h3>\nJennifer Kabat, October 4, 2024<\/p>\n

Thomas Cole Visits Prophetstown<\/h3>\nSierra Holt, September 27, 2024<\/p>\n

19 Real Locations That Inspired Famous Paintings<\/h3>\nNick Mafi, September 27, 2024<\/p>\n

Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC in Fall 2024<\/h3>\nAugust 26, 2024<\/p>\n

Midday Magazine: Let’s hear it for the Hudson River School!<\/h3>\nRalph Gardner Jr, August 10, 2024<\/p>\n

The Roundtable: Cole Center opens at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nJoe Donahue, August 2, 2024<\/p>\n

Stephen Shadley Crafts a Warm Welcome for a Catskills Historic Site<\/h3>\nAlia Akkam, July 31, 2024<\/p>\n

Five Museum Shows to Visit During Your Late Summer Travels<\/h3>\nMurray Whyte, July 12, 2024<\/p>\n

The Campus and ‘Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape’ at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nJuly 3, 2024<\/p>\n

Exhibit review: Pairing works by Thomas Cole with contemporary Indigenous artists<\/h3>\nWilliam Jaeger, June 26, 2024<\/p>\n

Thomas Cole\u2019s Landscape Painting Through an Indigenous Lens<\/h3>\nScott Manning Stevens, June 13, 2024<\/p>\n

Indigenous Artists Make Themselves Seen at the Thomas Cole Site<\/h3>\nSteven Weinberg, May 26, 2024<\/p>\n

The Roundtable: \u201cNative Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape\u201d at Thomas Cole Historic Site through October 27<\/h3>\nSarah LaDuke, May 7, 2024<\/p>\n

Six Trees that Inspire at Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios<\/h3>\nHaley Somolinos, April 12, 2024<\/p>\n

Landscape View: A New Documentary Digs Into the Past at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nMalea Martin, Winter 2024<\/p>\n

Ten shows to see at New England museums this fall<\/h3>\nMurray Whyte, October 20, 2023<\/p>\n

Newly Reviewed – Upstate – ‘Women Reframe American Landscape’<\/h3>\nTravis Diehl, August 30, 2023<\/p>\n

Illuminating Sarah Cole<\/h3>\n2023 Cole Fellow Kristen Marchetti, August 12, 2023<\/p>\n

Women Reframe American Landscape Susie Barstow & Her Circle \/ Contemporary Practices<\/h3>\nJessica Skwire Routhier, August 11, 2023<\/p>\n

A Guide to Art Exhibitions in New York and Massachusetts<\/h3>\nZachary Small, July 27, 2023<\/p>\n

Susie Barstow lived a grand adventure but her art was erased<\/h3>\nPhilip Kennicott, July 24, 2023<\/p>\n

Exhibition Review: Women, Land and Art at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nErika Gaffney, July 6, 2023<\/p>\n

Susie Barstow, a 19th-Century Artist Who Hiked Mountains in Bloomers to Paint Stunning Landscapes, Finally Gets a Museum Retrospective<\/h3>\nSarah Cascone, July 4, 2023<\/p>\n

Women rule the landscape\u2013then and now\u2013in Cole exhibits<\/h3>\nWilliam Jaeger, June 28, 2023<\/p>\n

5 Unmissable Art Road Trips for Every Kind of Traveler<\/h3>\nCultured Magazine, June 27, 2023<\/p>\n

Women Reframe American Landscape Painting At Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nChadd Scott, June 26, 2023<\/p>\n

REVIEW: ‘Women Reframe American Landscape’ celebrates women artists of the Hudson River School with historical and contemporary works<\/h3>\nLauren Levato Coyne, May 12, 2023<\/p>\n

The Roundtable: “Susie Barstow & Her Circle” at Thomas Cole National Historic Site as part of the “Women Reframe American Landscape” exhibition<\/h3>\nJoe Donahue, May 5, 2023<\/p>\n

8 must-see summer museum exhibitions to visit in the Berkshires<\/h3>\nJennifer Huberdeau, May 5, 2023<\/p>\n

Thomas Cole Historic site breaks ground on $1.8M renovation project<\/h3>\nMellisa Manno, Nov 20, 2022<\/p>\n

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Marc Swanson Draws Comfort From Rural Cemeteries and ’80s Club Music<\/h3>\nScott Heller, November 8, 2022<\/p>\n

At Mass MoCA, dead deer and disco lights elegize a dying world<\/h3>\nMurray Whyte, November 3, 2022<\/p>\n

REVIEW: Marc Swanson, Thomas Cole National Historic Site and MASS MoCA<\/h3>\nLauren Levato Coyne, Nov\/Dec Issue<\/p>\n

11 Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios to Enjoy the Changing Seasons<\/h3>\nHaley Somolinos, October 21, 2022<\/p>\n

The Best of Our Knowledge: Exploring a Virtual Painting<\/h3>\nLucas Willard, October 21, 2022<\/p>\n

Day Trip: Olana & Thomas Cole Historic Sites<\/h3>\nJamie Larson, August 28, 2022<\/p>\n

“A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” at Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\nNatasha Chuk, August 13, 2022<\/p>\n

The Roundtable: “Marc Swanson: A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco” at Thomas Cole National Historic Site and MASS MoCA<\/h3>\nJoe Donahue, August 11, 2022<\/p>\n

‘Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration’ Review: What Might Have Been<\/h3>\nBarrymore Laurence Scherer, July 19, 2022<\/p>\n

The Roundtable: “Thomas Cole’s Studio: Memory and Inspiration”<\/h3>\nJoe Donohue, May 10, 2022<\/p>\n

New Exhibit of Thomas Cole Works reimagines Hudson River School painter’s last days<\/h3>\nKaren Croke, April 16, 2022<\/p>\n

Painter Thomas Cole’s personal journal published<\/h3>\nTracy Ziemer, April 16, 2022<\/p>\n

What does it mean to live in the ruins of the future? At Mass MoCA, Marc Swanson’s answer is catastrophic beauty.<\/h3>\nJennifer Huberdeau, April 8, 2022<\/p>\n

Connecting Point<\/h3>\nApril 7, 2022<\/p>\n

Re-Imagining Thomas Cole’s Last Studio<\/h3>\nSarah Rose Sharp, March 3, 2022<\/p>\n

The Catskills Are Still the Perfect Fall Escape\u2014Here’s How to Plan Yours<\/h3>\nPeter Terzian, November 9, 2021<\/p>\n

Building Bridges: An inside look at the new exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment<\/h3>\nJames D. Balestrieri, November\/December 2021<\/p>\n

Summer’s Last Hummingbirds<\/h3>\nRalph Gardner Jr., October 9, 2021<\/p>\n

Cross Pollination and Creativity Along the Hudson River<\/h3>\nKate Menconeri and William L. Coleman, October 7, 2021<\/p>\n

In the Hudson River Valley, Artists Navigate Ecology<\/h3>\nSarah Rose Sharp, October 5, 2021<\/p>\n

The 25 most influential works of American culture<\/h3>\n
by Washington Post Staff, July 15, 2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
A decade-by-decade look at the books, music, art and ideas that shaped society…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

American Artists Are Still Looking for Utopia<\/h3>\n
by M. H. Miller, June 15, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
Of all the artists who spent their careers searching for a utopian ideal, my favorite is Thomas Cole… Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Review: Thomas Cole Show Reveals the Man Behind the Hudson River School<\/h3>\n
by William Jaeger, June 6, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n
All of this, in his own house, makes Cole\u2019s life more tactile, believable, and ever present…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Cole: How the Catskills Inspired American Landscape Art<\/h3>\n
by Ted Reinstein, August 25, 2025<\/time><\/p>\n
Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Native Prospects<\/h3>\n
Jennifer Kabat, October 4, 2024<\/p>\n
At the historic house of Hudson River School\u2013founder Thomas Cole, contemporary works by Indigenous artists present alternative worldviews of landscape and place…. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indigenous Artists Make Themselves Seen at the Thomas Cole Site<\/h3>\n
Steven Weinberg, May 26, 2024<\/p>\n
An exhibition curated by Scott Manning Stevens moves Native peoples to the forefront of historical depictions of the Hudson Valley and elsewhere…. Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Newly Reviewed – Upstate – ‘Women Reframe American Landscape’<\/h3>\n
Travis Diehl, August 30, 2023<\/p>\n
An exhibition at the\u00a0Thomas Cole National Historic Site\u00a0shows the extent to which the idea of landscape has been rethought….. Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Women Reframe American Landscape Painting At Thomas Cole National Historic Site<\/h3>\n
Chadd Scott, June 26, 2023<\/p>\n
Barstow (1836-1923) receives the first retrospective of her career one century following her death… Read the full article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Connecting Point<\/h3>\n
April 7, 2022<\/p>\n
Marc Swanson discusses his new exhibit and how his work examines the relationship between humans and the natural world. Watch the video here.<\/a><\/p>\n
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