Word: cole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire history of painting in America there has been no more conspicuous example of being the right man in the right place at the right time," writes Professor Howard Merritt in his introduction to the first major show of the works of Thomas Cole in 20 years...
...nation was young, proud and prickly. Proud of its achievements and of its mighty land, but looking for someone, somehow, to confirm it in its pride. It fell to Cole to see and paint the U.S. with a vision of its grandeur that expressed the young nation's inner vision -of a landscape that need yield pride of place to no other country...
Works Undefiled. Cole was the shy and sensitive son of an English immigrant who had set up shop as a wallpaper maker in the bustling new town of Steubenville, Ohio, where he arrived in 1818. Thomas helped his father with designs, was shown how to paint likenesses by one of the itinerant portrait painters who trudged from town to isolated town in early America. He set out to be a traveling portrait painter himself. Yet as he rested by the side of the road between jobs, he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him. "These scenes of solitude...
...right place, as the young Cole quickly realized, was New York, whose prosperous merchants were eager to purchase paintings for their new mansions and whose intellectual community had already fostered the talents of William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. Nature was in fashion. A speaker exhorted the nascent American Academy of Fine Arts in 1825: "The genius of your country points you to its stupendous cataracts and its ranging mountains. There, where nature needs no fictitious charms, place on the canvas the lovely landscape, and adorn our houses with American prospects and American skies." Cole may well...
...introduced in 1959, its fresh engineering was hailed as the forerunner of a new age of innovation in Detroit. The compact auto, designed to stop the imported car invasion, featured an air-cooled rear engine made largely of aluminum. It was the creation of Chevy General Manager Edward N. Cole, now president of General Motors. But the Corvair's plain Jane appearance did not seduce as many buyers as G.M. had expected. Restyled with bucket seats and a four-on-the-floor shift, the car gained popularity as something of an American sports car. Enthusiasts liked its jaunty look...