Sunrise in the Catskills

Thomas Cole, 1826

Hulking mountains are mostly backlit against a watery blue sky edged with shell pink along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up this horizontal landscape painting. Light falls across felled and… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Thomas Cole ¹
Date: 1826 ¹
Medium: oil on canvas ¹
Original: 17,795 × 12,732 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

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