The artist Thomas Cole is generally acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School, an art movement by a group of landscape painters that focuses on the beauty of natural scenes drawn from locations in Eastern North America and South America.
Images
Thomas Cole: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow. (1836) Oil on canvas; 130.8 cm (51.4″) x 193 cm (75.9″). Metropolitan Museum of Art