Romantic Landscape
Artist
Thomas Cole
American, born Great Britain, 1801–1848
Datecirca 1826
MediumOil on wood panel
Dimensions16 1/16 x 21 15/16 in. (40.8 x 55.8 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 x 31 in. (64.1 x 78.7 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 x 31 in. (64.1 x 78.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.7
On View
On view[1] Levy Galleries inventory no. 26787-A, as Landscape.
Published ReferencesW.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 8 (as Romantic Landscape), illus. (b-w).
[American Oxford Encyclopedia. New York Little & Ives Co 1961?]
American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 10, illus. (b-w).
Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 22, illus. (b-w).
Nina Kasanof, "American Landscapes of the 19th Century in the North Carolina Museum of Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 8 (June 1969), 2-15, discussed 4-5, illus. (b-w) fig. 1.
American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 7.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 234.
Ellwood C. Parry III, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988), possibly noted p.36.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 224.
John W. Coffey, entry for Romantic Landscape, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 193, illus. (color) 193, detail (color) 188.
Sarah Burns, Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004), mentioned 9, illus. (b-w) 11, fig. 5.
George M. Cohen, "Thomas Cole: Life-Changing Sojourn," Fine Art Connoisseur 3, no. 4 (April 2006), illus. (color) 20-21.
John W. Coffey, entry for Romantic Landscape, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 398, illus. (color) 399.
Exhibition History[Possibly New York, NY, American Academy of Arts, “Twelfth Annual Exhibition,” May 1826, no. 77 (as Landscape, sunrise) or no. 79 (as Landscape, sunset).]
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, cat. no. 7.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection Reimagined," November 20, 2023-present.
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