Mon., January 29, for “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings ” at The Met

Mon., January 29, for “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings ” at The Met

Celebrated as one of America’s preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, emigrated to the United States in his youth, and traveled extensively throughout England and Italy as a young artist. He returned to America to create some of his most ambitious works and inspire a new generation of American artists, launching a national school of landscape art. Opening January 30 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings will examine, for the first time, the artist’s transatlantic career and engagement with European art. With Cole’s masterworks The Course of Empire series (1834–36) and The Oxbow (1836) as its centerpiece, the exhibition will feature more than three dozen examples of his large-scale landscape paintings, oil studies, and works on paper. Consummate paintings by Cole will be juxtaposed with works by European masters including J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, among others, highlighting the dialogue between American and European artists and establishing Cole as a major figure in 19th-century landscape art within a global context. The exhibition marks the 200th anniversary of Cole’s arrival in America.
Exhibition Dates:  January 30–May 13, 2018
Exhibition Location:  The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor 1, Gallery 746, The Erving and Joyce Wolf Gallery
Press Preview:  Monday, January 29, 10 am–12 pm

Definitely check it out!!!!

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