41+ Mountain Landscape With Waterfall By Thomas Cole Background. On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 759. It has been suggested by several art historians that this small piece is a loose studio study for a larger work completed.
Kaaterskill falls, the tallest waterfall in new york!
The area got its name because when viewed from a distance the tops of the peaks appear black due to the spruce/balsam summits. The painting bought by william dunlap and sold to phillip hone, mayor of new york city. Crawford notch, a narrow gorge of the saco river in the white mountains of new hampshire, was the site of a cole, who visited the site in 1828, pictures it with bare, twisted trees and an impending storm that signal danger for the diminutive figures below. On view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 759.