The Life and Works of Thomas Cole
Louis Legrand Noble
Edited by Elliot S. Vesell

Constructed from Cole's own writings--his poetry, essays and descriptions--woven together with narrative and commentary by a man who knew him well, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole presents an intimate portrait of an American Genius whose art captured the spirit of his times and helped create the soul of a new nation.

Thomas Cole was lionized during his lifetime and mourned by an entire generation of artists following his death in 1848 at age 47. During his peak popularity in the 1820's-1840's, artists flocked to New York's Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley to confront the wilderness and emulate Cole's vision, and America's first indigenous art movement was born--the Hudson River School of landscape painting.

The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, by Cole's pastor and confidante, Louis Legrande Noble, is the primary source of biographical material about Cole. In the introduction by noted Cole scholar Dr. Elliot S. Vesell, Cole's work is placed in historical and critical perspective and assessed in the light of a modern viewpoint.

336 pp, 25 illustrations
Paper, $21.95 ISBN:1-883789-13-3


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