Thomas Cole's Comeback

The Washington Post | March 18, 1994| | Copyright

THOMAS COLE is out of intensive care and doing very well, thanks. The arrest and reversal of the long decline in the early American painter's reputation is being marked by a magnificent welcome-home party at the National Museum of American Art. A satellite celebration is underway at the National Gallery of Art.

The quick take on Cole (1801-48) is that he was our first great landscape artist and founder of the Hudson River School, the first distinctly American major art movement. Soon after his death he was dismissed as a hopeless romantic. Since then critics and art historians have ...

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