PPT Slide
Thomas Cole, Distant View of Niagara Falls (1830) Pohl p.137
Helped by Trumbull, and inspired by European landscape artists (Martin, Constable, Turner, Lorrain, Poussin)
See Pohl pp.135 & 139 quotations from his “Essay on American Scenery” (1835)
- Moral role of the artist: to reveal the perfection of nature as God’s creation