MAJOR 1969 Hard Cover Retrospective Catalog THOMAS COLE Start Price USD 44.00 Current Price USD 44.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 06, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 07, 2009 Location Los Angeles, CA See more about 'MAJOR 1969 Hard Cover Retrospective Catalog THOMAS COLE' Description E N T H U S I A S T ART BOOKS & FINE ART We purchase Artist Estates as well as art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books, catalogs and fine art for the lover of American & European prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: Thomas Cole 1801-1848, by Howard Merritt, Illustrated by Cole, Thomas , New York Graphic Society, New York, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good+ Condition. Limited. Hard Cover. Scarce, fantastic volume published on the occassion of Thomas Cole at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Pieces were lent from across the world for this, one of the largest Cole exhibitions ever compiled. Informative text, chronology, a catalogue of Paintings, catalogue of Drawings, 61+ plates reproduced in both b&w and color, and bibliography. Hardcover, 120 pages total. This is one of several COLE books, monograph and exhibition catalogs we are listing on EBay--check our eBay store for some that are exclusively offered there..... ********** See below for our COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS! PLEASE READ the description provided above carefully prior to purchase, and please examine the photo or photos provided, since those detail exactly what you are purchasing.  If you have any questions please email us prior to purchase.   We have thousands of happy customers all around the world! Thank you for your WONDERFUL Feedback! 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Biography from AskART: Known as the influential founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, Thomas Cole created detailed views of nature and was a key figure in making landscape painting a respectable pursuit of American artists in the eyes of the public. He was a religious man and a romantic, which was conveyed in the tone of his paintings and the moral and religious meaning he attached to his work. He was also one of the founders of The National Academy of Design in New York. Cole was born in Lancashire, England, and apprenticed to an engraver of textile designs for calico. He came to Philadelphia in 1819 with his family and worked briefly for an engraver, shipped to the West Indies, and traveled by foot to join his family in Steubenville, Ohio. There he learned the rudiments of painting from an itinerant artist named Stein, and he began sketching along the Monongahela River. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1823, and in 1825, moved to New York where he was discovered by John Trumbull, William Dunlap, and Asher Durand who saw his sketches of the Hudson River Valley and the Catskill Mountains in a shop window. They bought the painting, and his reputation was made. In 1836, he settled in the village of Catskill. He spent several years in Europe and from English theater, developed a great interest in panoramas. He was not overly impressed with European art, being much more interested in what he saw and thought about in the United States. While in Europe, he made a plan for a monumental series of large paintings that would trace the evolution of civilization, and when he returned to America, the series was commissioned by collector Luman Reed. In 1835, Cole completed the work titled The Course of Empire, which is in the collection of the New York Historical Society. In the 1830s, he was at the height of his powers, painting both landscapes and allegorical works and earning much money for them. His premature death from pneumonia was considered a great loss to America. Place a Bid!