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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

Thomas Cole 1801-1848

To Thomas Cole, Niagra Falls represented the granduer of God's creation, and the wilderness the splendor of the new land.

The falls, the river, and the forest symbolized the possibilities for the country's expansion.

Thomas Cole was the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River School of landscape painting.


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