This fascinating look at artist Thomas Cole's life takes readers from his humble beginnings to his development of a new painting style that became America's fir

The Hudson River has been a source of inspiration and a means of livelihood to all who have lived along its shores. It played a key role in the settling of the

This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colo

"Shows how Thomas Cole's neglected Catskill Creek paintings cohere as a series and express the artist's deep attachment to place and region"--