# Falls of the Kaaterskill [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COLE, Thomas]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 109 x 92 cm ## Commentary Born in England, Thomas Cole emigrated to the then British colony of North America when he was 17 and took up a career as a painter, specializing in landscapes and portraits. From 1825 he lived in New York, where he soon gained a reputation as a landscape painter, particularly after a trip along the Hudson River, which he undertook to paint in a number of canvases. This was the start of the Hudson River School which Cole founded and which attracted other artists such as Durand and Church, who worked in a similar style. Cole's generation initiated a truly American style of painting, which developed for the first time in the 19th century and which focused on landscape, genre painting and still-life. ## Related artworks - [Expulsion, Moon and Firelight]() - [The Ages of Life: Youth]() - [The Architect's Dream \(detail\)]() - [The Architect's Dream]() - [The Consummation of the Empire]() - [The Titan's Goblet]() - [View from Mount Holyoke, Northamptom, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm \(detail\)]() - [View from Mount Holyoke, Northamptom, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm \(The Oxbow\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()