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Original works by Thomas Cole available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
New England Scenery
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Italian Landscape, 1839
Cedar Grove | Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Fountain of Vaucluse, 1841
Thomas Cole at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Peace at Sunset (Evening in the White Mountains), ca.1827
View near the Village of Catskill, 1827
Prometheus Bound, 1846-47
Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris
Thomas Cole at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
8 works by Thomas Cole online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Landscape, 1825
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Thomas Cole at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
11 works by Thomas Cole
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Mill, Sunset, 1844 (Zoom)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Romantic Landscape, ca.1826
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
Lake WinnepesaukeeRuined Tower
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Lake with Dead Trees (Catskill)
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
The Hunter's Return
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Storm King of the Hudson, ca.1825-27
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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View Across Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert Island, After a Squall
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
View of Florence
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Cattle and Distant Mountain, 1822
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Cabin in the Woods, North Conway, NH
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Thomas Cole in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Genesee Scenery
Landscape Composition: Italian Scenery
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Untitled (American Lake Scene)
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
A View of the Hudson, ca.1835
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Massachusetts
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Landscape Sketch, 1841
Landscape Sketch, ca.1841
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Clove
New-York Historical Society
Many paintings illustrated
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Landscape, the Seat of Mr. Featherstonhaugh in the Distance
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art NEW!
Landscape (see top row)
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Sunset on the Arno, 1837
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Catskill Mountains Landscape
Thomas Cole at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Landscape with Figures: A Scene from 'The Last of the Mohicans', 1826
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Arch of Nero, 1846
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Architect's Dream
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Virtual Museum of Canada
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
The Last of the Mohicans, Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
View on the Arno, near Florence, 1837
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Cole in the Art Renewal Center
Thomas Cole in the Artchive
Thomas Cole at CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyzm
Brian Yoder's Art Gallery and Critic's Corner
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Olga's Gallery
The Athenaeum
106 works online by Cole
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
View Near Volterra, Italy
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Cole
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Time Magazine
"America's Prodigy", 1994 article by Robert Hughes
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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