Distant View of Niagara Falls

WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Thomas Cole 1801–1848: One Hundred Years Later, Nov. 12, 1948–Jan. 2, 1949, cat. 155, as Niagara Falls; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 8–30, 1949. 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, NY, Knox Art Gallery, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985; Corcoran Gallery of Art, New–York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings, Jan. 30–May 13, 2018, cat. 19; London, The National Gallery, June 11–Oct. 7, 2018.

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