Kaaterskill Falls
Thomas Cole · 1826
Why it's great
A waterfall plunges through a wild forest in the Catskill Mountains of New York, with a small figure in the foreground. Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, painted this in 1826 when he was a young artist. The painting made him famous. It's a landmark in American landscape painting.
Where to see it
📍 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtHartford, United States
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Thomas Cole was born in England and moved to the United States as a teenager, settling near the Hudson River in New York. He founded the Hudson River School, a group of artists who painted America's wild landscapes. His paintings often carried messages about nature and civilization. He died in Catskill, New York, in 1848.
