Championing the American wilderness, Cole declared, We are still in Eden, in his Essay on American Scenery, published two years before he painted this view of the Adirondacks. The artist sketched the scene in early summer, but when he created the painting in his studio, he rendered it in a dramatic blaze of fall colors. Such a choice likely had nationalistic overtones; he once proclaimed that autumn was one season where the American forest surpasses all the world in gorgeousness. Cole included two Indigenous men in the painting¡¯s right foreground foliage. At this time, the Adirondacks remained home to many Native Americans long after most had been forcibly removed from land east of the Mississippi River. While continuing to live, hunt, and fish in the area, these Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples were compelled to significantly adapt their existence amid increasing White settlement and its attendant lumber, mining, and tourist industries. Title View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm Creator Thomas Cole (American, 1801¨C1848) Date Created 1838 Physical Dimensions Framed 132.5 x 193.5 x 13 cm (52 3/16 x 76 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed 99.8 x 160.6 cm (39 5/16 x 63 1/4 in.) Provenance Dr. George Ackerly [d. 1842], New York, NY, to his daughter, Emma Ackerly1, Emma Ackerly, Jonathan G. and Emma Ackerly Chapman, sold to Nicholas Matthews1, Nicholas M. Matthews [1858-1930], Baltimore, MD, (American Art Association, Matthews collection sale, Feb. 17, 1914, no. 61, possibly sold to T. Austin), Possibly T. Austin, (Anderson Galleries, New York, NY, Matthews collection sale, Jan. 17, 1916, no. 55, sold to Holland Galleries), (Holland Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Type Painting Rights CC0 Medium oil on canvas Inscriptions signed lower left T. Cole / Catskill 1838. Fun Fact Nicknamed Schroon Mountain by the artist, the peak's official name is Hoffman Mountain. Department American Painting and Sculpture Culture America, 19th century Credit Line Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection Collection American - Painting Accession Number 1917.1335
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