Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”Christopher, “Living Off the Landscape,” 1. Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.Noble, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, 6. As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region. Because of this, Cole was granted an additional clarity of and sensitivity to the vibrancy of American landscapes awash with color, a stark contrast to the bleak and subdued landscapes of the country he left behind.Great Northern Catskills of Greene County. “Hudson River School of Art,” 1.
