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Hours (Open May-October 29, 2017):
- May: Tuesday-Sunday, 10:30am-4pm
- June-October: Tuesday-Sunday, 9:30am-5pm
Admission:
Admission to the Main House and Old Studio is by guided tour and tickets can be purchased in the Visitor Center. During regular open hours, tickets are $14 per person. Seniors over 62 and students with ID are $12 per person. Children under 12 free. No group rates.
About Thomas Cole
As the founder of America's first art movement, the Hudson River School, Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is a central figure in the development of American culture. When Cole made his first trip up the Hudson River in 1825, thought-leaders were searching for something distinctly American to establish the nation's own culture as separate from that of Europe. Thomas Cole found it in the Catskill Mountain wilderness, which came to symbolize the unspoiled character of the new nation. Lionized during his lifetime and celebrated by a generation of artists who followed in his footsteps, Cole is now widely regarded as the father of American landscape painting.
About the Thomas Cole Historic Site
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is the place where American art began, as it is the home of Thomas Cole (1801-1848), the founder of the Hudson River School – the first major art movement of the United States. Cole’s landscape paintings encompassed a new-found awe for the majesty of the American landscape, and they sparked the longest running art movement in American history, including more than 100 artists in the period between 1825 and about 1870. Today, the National Historic Site welcomes thousands of visitors each year. Thomas Cole’s original easels and art-making tools are on view in his “Old Studio”, and visitors can tour his 19th-century home and grounds, and watch a film about Cole and the Hudson River School in the visitor center. Guests especially enjoy the panoramic view from the west porch to the Catskill Mountains, which remains strikingly similar to Thomas Cole’s paintings of the same view. The site is located at 218 Spring Street in Catskill, New York. Current programs and events can be found on the website, www.thomascole.org.
- The Parlors
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site has opened a new way to encounter a historic house museum — a project that's been in the making for nearly a decade. Visitors experience the artist's home with a new immersive installation that combines technology and meticulous historic restoration, featuring the earliest-known, interior decorative painting by an American artist.
Exhibition:
TERRAFORMING: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed
Through October 29, 2023
(more inforamtion)
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