View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
Thomas Cole, 1838
A mountain after rain, New York wilderness still standing. A peak loved the way other men loved a cathedral. The storm has passed. The sermon has not.
About this work
Thomas Cole painted View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm in 1838. The peak Cole called Schroon Mountain is officially named Hoffman Mountain, in the Adirondacks. Cole sketched the scene in early summer, but in his studio he painted it in a dramatic blaze of autumn colour, with storm clouds clearing from the summit. The choice probably had nationalist overtones: he once declared that autumn was the "one season where the American forest surpasses all the world in gorgeousness". Two years earlier, in his Essay on American Scenery, he had written, "We are still in Eden." Cole also included two Indigenous men in the foliage at the lower right. At the time the Adirondacks were still home to Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples, long after most Native Americans had been forcibly removed from lands east of the Mississippi, and they were adapting to growing white settlement and the lumber, mining and tourist industries. The first owner was Cole's brother-in-law, Dr George Ackerly. The canvas measures 99.8 × 160.6 cm and is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, in the Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection.
Sources: Cleveland Museum of Art · Wikipedia: Thomas Cole
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 6,280 × 3,853 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 41 × 25 in
- Sizes
- Small (20 × 12 in) · $100 · 314 ppi
Medium (24 × 15 in) · $150 · 257 ppi
Large (36 × 22 in) · $300 · 174 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
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Here. View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (20 × 12 in) for $100, Medium (24 × 15 in) for $150 and Large (36 × 22 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
What size works best for View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm?
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Is it legal to print View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm?
Yes. View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
