The people behind the art

Thomas Cole

1801 to 1848

Thomas Cole was a 19th-century American painter (1801-1848). Their work is associated with Hudson River school. Their recorded places of work include Steubenville; New York City; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh.

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Born: 1801
Died: 1848
Nationality: United States; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Birthplace: Bolton; Bolton le Moors
Died in: New York City; Catskill

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Artworks by Thomas Cole

American1828

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Artist: Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole's 1828 painting shows Adam and Eve leaving Paradise, dwarfed by towering rock formations as a brilliant light bursts through a narrow cleft. This gallery visit explores how Cole used scale, light and the meeting of two worlds to make the biblical expulsion legible.

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Wikidata: Thomas Cole