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THOMAS COLE View on Catskill Creek Oil on composition board, c. 1833 At least two paintings of this subject preceded the final version entitled North Mountain and Catskill Creek (1838; Yale University Art Gallery). Painted about 1833, this view features a summer sunset on Catskill Creek, with North Mountain, sight of the Catskill Mountain House, a famous ninteenth-century resort, in the background. Cole was moved to write a poem paying tribute to this view in 1838, which reads in part: . . . Twilight spreads her misty wings In broader sadness o’er their happy scene And creeps along the distant mountain sides Until the setting sun’s last lingering beams Wreathe up in many a golden glorious ring Around the highest Catskill peak. Albany Institute of History & Art Gift of Florence Cole Vincent 1964.70 |
