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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    New England Scenery
    Thomas Cole. New England Scenery, 1839. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001075

    New England Scenery

    by Thomas Cole

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed on lower section of tree trunk: "T Cole" Dated at bottom, left of center: "1839"

    Provenance

    Thomas Cole, from 1839; W.F. Ladd, New York, around 1841; Charles Baker, New York, by 1853; Samuel Nickerson, Chicago, 1876; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1900.

    Exhibition history

    Boston Athenaeum, Fourteenth Exhibition of Paintings, Jun–?, 1840, cat. 35, as “Sunrise. A New England Scene.” New York City, Apollo Association, Granite Building, Eighth Exhibition, Oct. 5–Dec. ?, 1841, cat. 46, as “Landscape—New England Scenery.” New York City, Gallery of the American Art–Union, The Washington Exhibition in Aid of the New York Gallery of the Fine Arts, Mar–May 1, 1853, cat. 110. Chicago, Art–Hall, Exposition Building, The Inter–State Industrial Exposition, Sept. 7–Oct. 9, 1876, cat. 361, as “Landscape.” Chicago, Industrial Service Center, Y.W.C.A., Sept. 19, 1924–June 3, 1927, extended loan,as “Ideal Mountains.” Chicago, George Williams College (formerly Y.M.C.A. College), Nov. 19, 1931–Nov. 7, 1940, extended loan, as “Landscape.” Hudson River Exhibition, Feb. 15–Mar. 25, 1945. Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, cat. 12. Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, Thomas Cole 1801–1848: One Hundred Years Later, Nov. 12, 1948–Jan. 2, 1949, cat. 155, as Niagara Falls; New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 8–30, 1949. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Arts Club of Chicago, The American Landscape, Nov. 14–Dec. 29, 1973, cat. 4. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901, Sept. 21–Nov. 24, 1985; Buffalo, Knox Art Gallery, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985, Corcoran Gallery of Art, New–York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1986.

    Publications

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson: Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago, February, 1900, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1900), 7, cat. 13, as Landscape, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ien.35556005584180. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 116–17, fig. 22.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Thomas Cole (American, born England, 1801–1848)
    Date
    1839
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    57.1 × 46.7 cm (22 1/2 × 18 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    New England
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Nickerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1900.558

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