The Oxbow
- Artist
- Thomas Cole
- Date
- 1836
- Style
- Romanticism
- Genre
- Landscape
- Location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met)
"The Oxbow," officially titled View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, is a renowned landscape painting by Thomas Cole, a founder of the Hudson River School. Completed in 1836, it depicts a Romantic Romanticism panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. The painting captures the tension between wilderness and civilization, emphasizing natural beauty and human impact. Executed in Oil on a large Canvas, it remains an influential example of American landscape art that explores the relationship between nature and progress.
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