List of paintings by Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole was a 19th-century American artist widely regarded as a founder of the Hudson River School, and known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility,[1] he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil. His works are typically allegoric and often show small figures set against moody and evocative wilderness landscapes that served as escapism from the smog-filled cityscapes of industrial revolution-era Britain in which he grew up.[2]

His works are held across a broad variety of major and national museums; this list consists only of paintings documented in public collections. The medium, if not oil on canvas, is noted.

Image	Title	Year	Height (cm)	Width (cm)	Medium/notes	Collection	Accession No.
	Lake with Dead Trees (Catskill)	1825	68.6	85.7	Oil on canvas museum entry	Allen Memorial Art Museum	1904.1183
	Landscape	1825	60.3	80.0	Oil on canvas museum entry	Minneapolis Institute of Art	15.299
	The Clove, Catskills	c. 1826	64.1	89.2	museum entry	New Britain Museum of American Art	1945.22
	Kaaterskill Falls	1826				Wadsworth Atheneum
	Sunrise in the Catskills	1826	64.8	90.1	Oil on canvas museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1989.24.1
	Landscape, the Seat of Mr. Featherstonhaugh in the Distance	1826	83.8	121.9	Oil on canvas museum entry	Philadelphia Museum of Art	2004-115-4
	The Tempest	1826			museum entry	High Museum of Art	1987.100
	The Last of the Mohicans: The Death of Cora	c. 1827			museum entry	University of Pennsylvania Art Collection	0000.0275
	Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund	1827	64.5	89.1		Wadsworth Atheneum	1868.3
	View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains	1827	47.31	64.45	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	47.1200
	View in the White Mountains	1827	64.5	89.4	museum search	Wadsworth Atheneum	1848.17
	Autumn in the Catskills	1827				Arnot Art Museum
	View near the Village of Catskill	1827	62.2	88.9	Oil on panel. museum entry	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco	1993.35.7
	Landscape Composition: Saint John in the Wilderness	1827	91.4	73.5	museum entry	Wadsworth Atheneum
	Peace at Sunset (Evening in the White Mountains)	1827	68.9	81.9	museum entry	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco	46.13
	Lake Winnepesaukee	1827/28	64.8	87	museum entry	Albany Institute of History & Art	1949.1.4
	Expulsion: Moon and Firelight	c. 1828	91.4	122	museum entry	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	95 (1980.14)
	Expulsion from the Garden of Eden	1828	100.96	138.43	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	47.1188
	Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks)	1828	66.4	81.9	museum entry	Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
	The Garden of Eden	1828	38.5	52.75	museum entry	Amon Carter Museum of American Art	1990.10
	View on Lake Winnipiseogee	1828			Oil on panel	Wadsworth Atheneum
	The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge	1829	90.8	121.3	museum entry	Smithsonian American Art Museum	1983.40
	Catskill Scenery	1830s			museum entry	Saint Louis Art Museum	105:1970
	Distant View of Niagara Falls	1830	47.9	60.6	Oil on panel museum entry	Art Institute of Chicago	1946.396
	A Wild Scene	1831–1832	129.7	194.5	museum collection search	Baltimore Museum of Art
	Study for The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds	1831	17.8	22.2	museum entry	Chrysler Museum of Art	86.193
	Tornado in an American Forest	1831			museum entry	National Gallery of Art	2014.136.117
	Aqueduct near Rome	1832	44.5	67.3	Oil on canvas museum entry	Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum	WU 1987.4
	The Dead Abel	1832	17	28.5	Oil on panel. museum entry	Albany Institute of History & Art	1943.86
	Ruined Tower (Mediterranean Coast Scene with Tower)	1832–1836	68	86.4	Oil on composition board museum entry	Albany Institute of History & Art	1965.1
	Ruined Castle and River	c. 1832	20.2	31.7	museum entry	Brooklyn Museum	21.107
	The Cascatelli, Tivoli, Looking Towards Rome	c. 1832	85.73	113.03	museum entry	Columbus Museum of Art	1991.013.001
	A View near Tivoli (Morning)	1832	37.5	58.7	museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	03.27
	Salvator Rosa Sketching Banditti	1832–1840	17.78	24.13	Oil on panel museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	62.268
	The Titan's Goblet	1833	49.2	41	museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	04.29.2
	Scene from Byron’s “Manfred”	1833			museum entry	Yale University Art Gallery	1968.102
	The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds	1834	101.5	185.5	museum entry	Chrysler Museum of Art	80.30
	Clouds	c. 1838	22.2	27.6	museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	2013.201
	Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)	1836	14	23.8	museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	2014.59
	The Oxbow	1836	130.8	193	museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	08.228
	The Course of Empire: The Savage State	1836	99.7	160.7	museum entry	New-York Historical Society	1858.1
	The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State	c. 1834	99.7	160.7	museum entry	New-York Historical Society	1858.2
	The Course of Empire: Consummation	1836	130.2	193	museum entry	New-York Historical Society	1858.3
	The Course of Empire: Destruction	1836			museum entry	New-York Historical Society	1858.4
	The Course of Empire: Desolation	1836	99.7	160.7	museum entry	New-York Historical Society	1858.5
	View of Florence from San Miniato	1837			museum entry	Cleveland Museum of Art	1961.39
	View on the Catskill Early Autumn	1837			museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	95.13.3
	The Departure	1837			museum entry	National Gallery of Art	2014.79.13
	The Return	1837			museum entry	National Gallery of Art	2014.79.12
	View on the Arno, near Florence	1837	84.5	135.5	museum search	Worcester Art Museum	1991.179
	The Vesper Hymn	c. 1838	53.7	45.4	museum entry	Yale University Art Gallery	1949.41
	Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower	1838	86.4	116.8	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1993.55.1
	The Present	1838			museum entry	Mead Art Museum	AC 1951.190
	The Past	1838			museum entry	Mead Art Museum	AC 1951.189
	Dream of Arcadia	1838	98.1	159.4	museum entry	Denver Art Museum	1954.71
	North Mountain and Catskill Creek	1838			museum entry	Yale University Art Gallery	1981.56
	The Notch of the White Mountains	1839	102	155.8	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1967.8.1
	Portage Falls on the Genesee	1839				Seward House Historic Museum
	New England Scenery	1839	57.1	46.7	museum entry	Art Institute of Chicago	1900.558
	Gardens of the Van Rensselaer Manor House	1840	61	91	museum entry	Albany Institute of History & Art	1930.7.1
	The Architect's Dream	1840			museum entry	Toledo Museum of Art	1949.162
	The Fountain of Vaucluse	1841			museum entry	Dallas Museum of Art	1992.14
	Sunset in the Catskills	1841	57.15	76.2	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	63.271
	The Return from the Tournament	1841	100.97	153.67	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	2014.136.170
	The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching	c. 1842	49.85	76.52	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	47.1198
	View of Sicily	1842-45	18.6	25.7	museum entry	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	2011.22
	The Voyage of Life: Childhood	1842	134.3	195.3	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1971.16.1
	The Voyage of Life: Youth	1842	134.3	194.9	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1971.16.2
	The Voyage of Life: Manhood	1842	134.3	202.6	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1971.16.3
	The Voyage of Life: Old Age	1842	133.4	196.2	museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1971.16.4
	River in the Catskills	1843	69.85	102.55	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	47.1201
	Angels Ministering to Christ in the Wilderness	1843	189.2	152.4	Oil on linen	Worcester Art Museum	1970.118
	Roman Campagna	1843				Wadsworth Atheneum
	Mount Etna from Taormina	1843	200	306	museum search	Wadsworth Atheneum	1844.6
	An Italian Autumn	1844	81.6	123.19	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	1989.229
	Study for "Catskill Creek"	1844/1845	30.5	45.7	Oil on panel museum entry	National Gallery of Art	1998.67.1
	A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning	1844	91	136.9	museum entry	Brooklyn Museum	52.16
	American Lake Scene	1844	46.4	62.2	museum entry	Detroit Institute of Arts
	The Mill, Sunset	1844	66.36	91.6	museum entry	Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	2004.29
	View of the Thames	1845	33.97	51.43	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts Boston	63.270
	Il Penseroso	1845			museum entry	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	M.80.115
	The Cross in the Wilderness	1845			museum entry	Department of Paintings of the Louvre	RF 1975-9
	View across Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert Island, after a Squall	1845	97.3	159	museum entry	Cincinnati Art Museum	1925.569
	L'Allegro	1845	81.6	121.92	museum entry	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	M.74.53
	Study for The Cross and the World	1846–47	30.1	46.2	Oil on panel museum entry	Brooklyn Museum	33.274
	Study for The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey	c. 1847	30.48	45.72	museum entry	Smithsonian American Art Museum	1988.1
	The Cross and the World: The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey	1846–1848	30.48	45.72	museum entry	Smithsonian American Art Museum	1965.10
	The Cross and the World: The Pilgrim of the World on his Journey	1846–47	30	46	museum entry	Albany Institute of History & Art	1943.83
	The Pic-Nic	1846	121.6	137.2	museum entry	Brooklyn Museum	67.205.2
	Arch of Nero	1846			museum search	Newark Museum
	The Mountain Ford	1846	71.8	101.8	museum entry	Metropolitan Museum of Art	15.30.63
	Indian Pass	1847	101.8	75.6	museum entry	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	95.138
	Prometheus Bound	1847			museum entry	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco	1997.28
	Genesee Scenery	1847	130.8	99.7	museum entry	Rhode Island School of Design Museum	38.054
	Home in the Woods	1847			museum entry	Reynolda House Museum of American Art
	The Good Shepherd	1848	32	48	museum entry	Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	2007.10
	Cross at Sunset	1848	81.8	122.4	Oil on canvas museum entry	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	96 (1980.15)
	Italian Landscape (formerly The Catskills from Saugerties)	?	13.3	23.5	Oil on board museum entry	Fralin Museum of Art	1981.104
	Dead Rising from Tombs	?	19	27.5	Oil on panel museum entry	Princeton University Art Museum	y1943-110