FILE: 11_The Oxbow_Cole.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING -The Oxbow - 19TH CENTURY

DESCRIPTION: COLE. Father of American landscape painting. 2 KINDS OF LANDSCAPE This is the FIRST: exact portrait of specific place. Founded Hudson River School in NY. Hudson River painters would "ramble" up trails, sketching copiously. This type landscape = a concession to public opinion: Americans really didn't want allegory or mannerism but wanted real portrayals.