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| Sunny Morning on the Hudson River (Oil, 1827) |
| "Sunny
Morning" is very typical of Thomas Cole's wilderness paintings.
As he has done here, he frequently positions the viewer on a high perch. Another
very common Cole compositional element is also seen here: the
foreground trees. He often isolated one or more, highlighting
them against a dark background. Almost all of Cole's landscapes are done in the early morning. It was, for him, a time of newness and
promise. |
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