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Dream of Arcadia

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Description: Dream of Arcadia
TitleDream of Arcadia
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1838
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions38 1/4 × 63 in. (98.1 × 159.4 cm)
LocationDenver Art Museum
https:/­/­denverartmuseum.org/­object/­1954.71
Accession number1954.71
SubjectsPastoral artHudson River school of landscape paintingLandscape painting, American--19th centuryArcadianism
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3. Sleepy Hollow: A Young Nation in Repose
Aaron Sachs
Description: Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
There is no such “right of property” possible in a republic. . . . To fence out a genial eye from any corner of the earth which Nature has lovingly touched with that pencil which never repeats itself—to shut up a glen or a waterfall for one man’s exclusive knowing and enjoying—to lock up trees and glades, shady paths and haunts...
Author
Aaron Sachs
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2013 by Aaron Sachs
Related print edition pages: pp.96-136
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23873&redirecttoanchor=25367
Chapter subject tags:Cemeteries--United States--History--19th centuryIndustrialization in artHorticulture--HistoryDowning, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852Landscape designCole, Thomas, 1801-1848
3. Reading the Campagna: “Silence Made Visible”
William L. Vance
Description: America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome
In the spring of 1833 America’s first “foreign correspondent” stood on the “lofty turrets” of the Tomb of Cecilia Metella and saw before him the original of “one of the finest landscapes ever painted” ...
Author
William L. Vance
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1989 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.68-153
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.008
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Chapter subject tags:Campagna di Roma (Italy)ArcadianismCole, Thomas, 1801-1848Landscape painting, American--19th centuryAmerican literature--19th centuryInness, George, 1825-1894James, Henry, 1843-1916Rome (Italy)--In literature

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Description: The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 20
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1834
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions39 1/4 × 63 1/4 in.
LocationNew-York Historical Society
https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/56323/the-course-of-empire-the-arcadian-or-pastoral-state
Accession number1858.2
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or...
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Description: The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, detail
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, detail
Posted by:John Carlson
May 07
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1834
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions51.25 × 76 in. (103.2 × 193 cm)
LocationNew-York Historical Society
https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/56323/the-course-of-empire-the-arcadian-or-pastoral-state
Accession number1858.2
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or...
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, detail
Description: A View from the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains
A View from the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains
Posted by:John Carlson
May 07
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1839
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions40 × 61.5 in. (101.6 × 156.2 cm)
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50727.html
Accession number1967.8.1
A View from the Mountain Pass Called the...
A View from the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains
Description: The Course of Empire: Desolation
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 20
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1836
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions39.25 × 63 in. (99.7 × 160 cm)
LocationNew-York Historical Society
https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/21572/the-course-of-empire-desolation
Accession number1858.5
The Course of Empire: Desolation
The Course of Empire: Desolation
Description: The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 31
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1829
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions35 3/4 × 47 5/8 in. (90.8 × 121.4 cm)
LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5080
Accession number1983.4(0)
The Subsiding of the Waters of the...
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Description: In Arcadia
In Arcadia
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 30
Creator nameHarrison, Alexander
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1886
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions77 1/2 x 114 1/4 in.
LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/en-arcadie-20411
In Arcadia
In Arcadia
Description: View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains (Sunny Morning on the Hudson River)
View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains (Sunny Morning on the Hudson River)
Posted by:John Carlson
Aug 18
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1827
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on panel
Dimensions18 5/8 x 25 3/8 in. (47.31 x 64.45 cm)
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/view-of-the-round-top-in-the-catskill-mountains-33072
Accession number47.12
View of the Round-Top in the Catskill...
Sunny Morning on the Hudson River
Description: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The...
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 06
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1836
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions51 1/2 x 76 in. (130.8 x 193 cm)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10497
Accession number08.228
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton,...
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Description: Landscape with Dead Tree
Landscape with Dead Tree
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 25
Creator nameCole, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1827–1828
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions26 1/2 × 32 1/2 in.
LocationMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School on Design, Providence, Rhode Island
http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/812_landscape_landscape_with_tree_trunks
Accession number30.063
Landscape with Dead Tree
Landscape with Dead Tree

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