Tree Trunks
Thomas Cole
1825-1840
Medium
pen and black ink, wash, and graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 37.15 × 27.31 cm (14 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.607
About the Artist
Thomas Cole · 1801–1848
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was an English-born American painter who founded the Hudson River School, the first major American art movement, and became the most influential landscape painter in nineteenth-century American art. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling first in Ohio before moving to Philadelphia and then New York, where he ...