Cole Chocorua Autumn

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this painting now on loan, display cole's home and studio, Cedar Grove, Catskill NY

provides, presents a challenge in our ongoing effort to "follow in the footsteps" of White Mountain artists, in this case Thomas Cole

previous blogs here.

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cole in crawford notch 

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the overall impression wild land







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For more on this item see this link. https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/view-near-tamworth-new-hampshire-white-mountains-38272







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some say a self portrait of Cole himself other say Durer's Melancholia

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figures from parthenon



interesting visual tied to legend associated with the mountain beyond

Cole wrote two versions of the Chocorua legend

Wadsworth sketch of Chocorua perhaps earliest?

perhaps this powder horn, Burton Hill
lying down on the job


views and visions

reality, imagination

not shackled

sketch to canvas

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lying down on the job


views and visions

reality, imagination

not shackled

sketch to canvas

insert about sketch to studio? sketch to canvas

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sold for




then the big rock behind the figure







could be glacial erratic or ledge, difference is whether matches base rock


common feature in the White Mountains 

Cole interested in geology, then known as "the fashionable science." 

see Bedell book scans, jstor and books/ and exhibits 




map cartouche show on 1816 Carrigain, map he might have seen

map he did see was this Wadsworth, now in the collection of Albany ...










sound of the water,

echo very significant in nh, there are two echo lakes, canons used to create echo

as well as stage coach horns

tie to white horse ledge blog here.   


then the mountain profile in the background











the tree roots over the rock, the birch bark hanging off the branches






trees on rocks, roots holding common feature in the White Mountains












Then the plant in the foreground, this tells time







mullein plant can be seen in Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, etc.









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sketch to canvas, what Warren Shomaker did in x year, 2017 Marcia Clarke, Smithsonian Magazine from x date


see pics from that exhibit

currently sale art, online due to pandemic





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following in the footsteps

previous blog sept 30, 1828 in NH south of Concord,


let's check back with Cole in October and continue following in his footsteps

and connecting collections,


this focus on cole's 2nd watercolor, near Tamworth,

and his Chocorua and brownlow thompson and other chocorua stuff in hhr collection


tie to new stone wall see bcltp pics C:\Users\chino\Pictures\Chocorua pics bcltp\stone wall chocorua

tie terminology to the stone wall books i got from library, in camry?

and tie to lidar and landscape change, tie to mills?
and near Conway




paintings from the Jack Warner Foundation out of Tuscaloosa Alabama

website here.




Cole's Autumn Landscape (Chocura) c. 1837

oil on canvas 29x47 inches


see details here.


will be on display at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill New York

Cedar Grove, Thomas Cole, Catskill NY in spring 2021 see their website here.





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