| The Oxbow | |
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| Artist | Thomas Cole |
| Year | 1836 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 130.8 cm × 193 cm (51+1⁄2 in × 76 in) |
| Location | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Accession | 08.228 |
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a seminal American landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The 1836 painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.[1]
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