Van Gogh's Starry Nights

The Oxbow is of Thomas Cole

Introduction

The painting of the oxbow shaped bend formed by the Connecticut River just south of North of South Hampton, Massachusetts. (1836; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) It has long been identified as one of the exceptional works in the American landscape tradition. The classic rendering of the Oxbow by Thomas Cole is a multi-valued interpretation of the landscape idea in American art of nineteenth-century. A line runs from the lower right corner diagonally, moving upward toward the whirling storm clouds in the upper left corner.

There is a classical portrayal of untamed and ...