Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
2016
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
- American Made. Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection ,Asheville Art Museum ,Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- Shifting Shorelines ,Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University ,Harlem, New York, USA
- American Landscapes From The New-York Historical Society ,Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute ,Utica, New York, USA
- American Made ,Huntsville Museum of Art ,Huntsville, Alabama, USA
- Wilderness Passing: The Hudson River Portfolio, 1820鈥�1825 ,Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas ,Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
- American Visions: Recent Additions To The Collection ,Rollins Museum of Art ,Winter Park, Florida, USA
2023
- American Visions: Recent Additions to the Collection ,Rollins Museum of Art ,Winter Park, Florida, USA
- American Made: Painting and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection ,Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens ,Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle / Contemporary Practices At The Thomas Cole National Historic Site ,Patron Gallery ,Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Nature, Crisis, Consequence ,New York Historical Society ,Upper West Side, New York, USA
2022
- Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes ,New Bedford Whaling Museum ,New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
- The American Masters ,Questroyal Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- American Made: Painting and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection ,Mint Museum of Art, Uptown ,Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- Sheldon Treasures ,Sheldon Museum of Art ,Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- The Warner Foundation Collection: History in the Painting ,Figge Art Museum ,Davenport, Iowa, USA
- American Fine Art ,Fenimore Art Museum ,Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Cycles of Nature: Highlights from the Collections of the Hudson River Museum and Art Bridges ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
2021
- For America ,Oklahoma City Museum of Art ,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Picturing a Nation: American Drawings and Watercolors ,Chazen Museum of Art ,Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Painting a Nation ,Shelburne Museum ,Shelburne, Vermont, USA
- A Room with a View: Scenes of the Italian Countryside ,Oklahoma City Museum of Art ,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Dirt: Inside Landscapes ,Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art ,New Paltz, New York, USA
2020
- Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church And Our Contemporary Moment ,Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens ,Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- ONLINE: The American Masters And Other Important Painters ,Questroyal Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- ONLINE: Landscape Art & Virtual Travel: Highlights from the Collections of the HRM & Art Bridges ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
- Founding Narratives ,Mead Art Museum, Amherst College ,Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Ten Great American Painters and Their Brilliant Rivals ,Questroyal Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- American Vision: A Tribute to Carroll Owens, Jr. ,Muscarelle Museum of Art ,Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
- American Pastoral ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,London, UK
2019
- Thomas Cole鈥檚 Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
- The Poetry of Nature ,Taft Museum of Art ,Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- From Schuylkill To The Hudson: Landscapes Of The Early American Republic ,The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,Middle City East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art ,Michener Art Museum ,Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- A Call to the Wild: Important Hudson River School Landscapes ,Questroyal Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Fleeting Nature: Selections From The Collection ,Mead Art Museum, Amherst College ,Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- From the Golden Age to the Moving Image: The Changing Face of the Permanent Collection ,Oklahoma City Museum of Art ,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- The American Experiment: Nineteenth-Century Prints ,Reynolda House Museum of American Art ,Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
- The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
- Nature鈥檚 Nation: American Art and Environment ,Peabody Essex Museum ,Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- American Art: Colonial to Modern ,Hood Museum of Art ,Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Staged Meaning/Meaning Staged. Landscapes from Fisher鈥檚 Permanent Collection ,USC Fisher Museum of Art ,South Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2018
- Important American Paintings, Volume XIX: Art Changes Everything ,Questroyal Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Encountering Death: Our Responses And Reconciliations ,University of Arizona Museum of Art ,Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Timing Is Everything ,Mead Art Museum, Amherst College ,Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society ,Worcester Art Museum ,Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Landscapes from the Permanent Collection ,Fruitlands Museum ,Harvard, Massachusetts, USA
- Thomas Cole and The Garden of Eden ,Fenimore Art Museum ,Cooperstown, New York, USA
- The Rockies & The Alps ,Newark Museum of Art ,Newark, New Jersey, USA
- The Last New World: Important Hudson River School Paintings ,Questroyal Fine Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings ,The Metropolitan Museum of Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2017
- Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
- Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art ,Amon Carter Museum of American Art ,Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
- DeWitt Boutelle after Thomas Cole: The Voyage of Life From the Manoogian Collection ,Vero Beach Museum of Art ,Vero Beach, Florida, USA
- Sublime North: Romantic Painters Discover Norway Paintings from the Collection of Asbjørn Lunde ,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ,Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- A New View: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection ,Fruitlands Museum ,Harvard, Massachusetts, USA
- Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art ,Shelburne Museum ,Shelburne, Vermont, USA
- Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art ,Joslyn Art Museum ,Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2016
- Mount Washington: The Crown of New England ,Currier Museum of Art ,Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
- Sight and Site Lines: American Works on Paper 1790-1890 ,Driscoll Babcock ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum ,Shelburne Museum ,Shelburne, Vermont, USA
- The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting ,Brandywine Museum of Art ,Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA
- Abodes of Plenty: American Art of the Inhabited Landscape ,Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2015
- Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic ,Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ,Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Scenery, Story, Spirit: American Painting and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art ,Wichita Art Museum ,Wichita, Kansas, USA
- The American Spirit: Painting and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art ,Tampa Museum of Art ,Tampa, Florida, USA
- Changing Views: Queering U.S. Landscapes ,University of Arizona Museum of Art ,Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th-Century American Art ,Frist Art Museum ,Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2014
- Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- American Art Masterworks ,Seattle Art Museum ,Seattle, Washington, USA
- The Perimeter of the World: Contemporary Travel Photography Juried Exhibition ,Rayko Photo Center ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Painting America: Artists of the New World (1830-1900) ,Foundation de l'Hermitage ,Lausanne, Switzerland
- Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum ,Shelburne Museum ,Shelburne, Vermont, USA
- Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy ,Taubman Museum of Art ,Roanoke, Virginia, USA
2013
- Masterpieces of American Landscape Painting 1820鈥�1950 ,GRAM, Grand Rapids Art Museum ,Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- American Masters: Thomas Cole to Grandma Moses ,Fenimore Art Museum ,Cooperstown, New York, USA
- American Places: Painting the Landscape in the Nineteenth Century ,Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision ,Fenimore Art Museum ,Cooperstown, New York, USA
- Animal/Vegetable/Mineral: An Artist鈥檚 Guide to the World ,Florence Griswold Museum ,Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
- From Colony to Nation: 200 Years of American Painting at the New-York Historical Society ,New York Historical Society ,Upper West Side, New York, USA
- The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames ,Hudson River Museum ,Yonkers, New York, USA
2012
- American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Narrative Landscape ,High Museum of Art ,Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- An American Tradition: Paintings, 1820s-1930s ,Spanierman Modern ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Art of the White Mountains ,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision ,Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ,Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2011
- American Treasures: Masterworks From the Butler Institute of American Art ,Boca Raton Museum of Art ,Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- Painting the American Vision ,Peabody Essex Museum ,Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- Perfectly American: The Art-Union and Its Artists ,Gilcrease Museum ,Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
Thomas Cole was an American 19th Century painter who was born in 1801. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University have featured Thomas Cole's work in the past.Thomas Cole's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 60 USD to 1,623,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,623,000 USD for Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire, sold at Christie's New York in 2025. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 151,358 USD.Thomas Cole has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for caa.reviews in March 2025. The artist died in 1848.
Artist's alternative names: Thomas C. Cole
Artist's alternative names: Thomas C. Cole
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