About the Artwork
From the Top of Kaaterskill Falls
1826
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 31 1/8 × 41 1/8 inches (79.1 × 104.5 cm) Framed: 42 1/4 × 52 1/8 × 3 1/4 inches (107.3 × 132.4 × 8.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
46.134
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, at lower center: T. Cole | 1826
Inscribed, on the back (before relining): From the top of Kaaterskill Falls 1826
Provenance
1826, probably John Hone (New York, New York, USA). 1946, Old Print Shop (New York, New York, USA). 1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat., The American Academy of the Fine Arts. New York, 1827, no. 120.
Van Zandt, Roland. The Catskill Mountain House. New Brunswick, NJ, 1966, pp. 135-137 (fig. 31).
Parry, Ellwood C. The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination. Newark, 1988, pp. 43-44, 51 (fig. 20).
Myers, Kenneth. The Catskills: Painters, Writers, and Tourists in the Mountains, 1820-1895. Exh. cat., The Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, NY, 1988, p. 113 (pl. 14).
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, no. 16 (ill.).
Troyen, Carol. Thomas Cole and the Garden of Eden. Exh. cat., Fenimore Art Museum. Cooperstown, 2018, p. 17 (fig. 19).
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Thomas Cole, From the Top of Kaaterskill Falls, 1826, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 46.134.
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