This article is about the painting. For the body of water, see The Oxbow (Connecticut River).
The Oxbow
Artist
Thomas Cole
Year
1836
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
130.8 cm × 193 cm (51+1⁄2 in × 76 in)
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession
08.228
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a seminal American landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The 1836 painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.[1]
^Miller, Angela (1993). The Empire of the Eye. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 40. ISBN 0-8014-2830-0.
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