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Thomas Cole: Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower, 1838
Source: Artcyclopedia; photograph by Michael Weinberg
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Thomas Cole Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Thomas Cole available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Cedar Grove | Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Thomas Cole at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Many works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Indian Pass, 1847
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Mill, Sunset, 1844 (Zoom)
Thomas Cole at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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, 1825/27
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
View Across Frenchman's Bay from Mt. Desert Island, After a Squall
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Landscape Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans", 1827
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
View of the Schoharie, 1826
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Cabin in the Woods, ca.1848
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Genesee Scenery
Landscape Composition: Italian Scenery
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Landscape, 1825
Mint Museum of Art, North Carolina
Untitled (American Lake Scene)
Museum of the National Academy of Design, 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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Romantic Landscape, ca.1826
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Home in the Woods, 1847
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Landscape (see top row)
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Sunset on the Arno, 1837
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Catskill Mountains Landscape
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
Landscape with Figures: A Scene from 'The Last of the Mohicans', 1826
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Arch of Nero, 1846
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "American 1700-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
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
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
View on the Arno, near Florence, 1837
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Cole at The Art Renewal Center
Thomas Cole at The Artchive
Thomas Cole at The Athenaeum 
110 works online by Cole
Thomas Cole in the Web Gallery of Art
Thomas Cole in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
Thomas Cole at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
View Near Volterra, Italy
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous 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 and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Cole 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
The Falls of Kaaterskill, 1826
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Mill Dam on Catskill Creek, 1841
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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The Life and Works of Thomas Cole
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Thomas Cole's Poetry
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