Thomas Cole – The Subsidizing of the Waters of the Deluge (1829) oil on canvas
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art

The Course of Empire Series

Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire:  The Savage State (1834) oil on canvas
New York Historical Society

Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire:  The Arcadian or Pastoral State (1834) oil on canvas
New York Historical Society

Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire:  Consummation (1835-1836) oil on canvas
New York Historical Society

Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire:  Destructtion (1835-1836) oil on canvas
New York Historical Society

Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire:  Desolation (1836) oil on canvas
New York Historical Society

Thomas Cole – The Oxbow:  View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts,
after a Thunderstorm (1836) oil on canvas
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas Cole – The Departure (1837) oil on canvas
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art

Thomas Cole – The Return (1837) oil on canvas
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art

Thomas Cole – The Fountain of Vaucluse (1841) oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Miles H. Hodges - 2014