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Thomas Cole 2.1.13 REPOST
Here's the promised repost of the Thomas Cole bioBLOG. (The original got spammed.) His birthday is 2.1.1801.
"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."– Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole [Image courtesy http://www.abcgallery.com]
Thomas Cole was born on this in Bolton-le-Moor, Lancashire, England. in 1801. Today is the 211th anniversary of his birth.
Cole was the seventh child born to James and Mary Cole. James was a woolen manufacturer. Accounts of Cole's childhood in England vary, but it seems that family was poor and his life was pretty grim.
In 1810, at the age of nine, Thomas was sent to school in the city of Chester, where he allegedly suffered from malnutrition, harsh discipline and sickness enough to scar him with memories of the experience for the rest of his life. [ABC Gallery.com]
In 1815 his lot improved marginally as he apprenticed "to an engraver of designs working at a calico print factory" [Ibid] By 17 he was an engraver's assistant in Liverpool. When the company his father worked for folded the family moved to the United States.
They lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a while before moving on to Steubenville, Ohio, but Thomas stayed in Philadelphia. He …
worked as a wood engraver and a textile print designer. The next year, 1819, Cole traveled to St. Eustatius in the Caribbean where he made some of his earliest artistic efforts, sketches of the mountainous landscape. [questoryalfineart.com]
He joined his family in Ohio later that year. He worked with his father as a wallpaper manufactuer . In 1820 he learned the basics of portrait painting from a traveling painter named Stein. Although Cole was more interested in landscapes, portraits sold better. He also painted theatre sets.
In 1823, the young aspiring artist took his development to a new level by enrolling at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. The next year, Cole exhibited his first work, at the Pennsylvania Academy. He moved to New York City in 1825 and began his long relationship with and reverence for the Hudson River Valley. [Ibid]
Cole, Thomas – Kaaterskill Falls (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cole is considered the father of the Hudson River School, "America's first true artistic fraternity" [metmuseum.org]
…a tourist hotel was opened in the Catskill Mountains one hundred miles upriver from New York. Once in New York in late 1825, Cole sailed for the Catskills, making sketches there and elsewhere along the banks of the Hudson. He produced a series of paintings that, when spotted in a bookstore window by three influential artists, gained him widespread commissions and almost instant fame. [Ibid]
The end of the Edenic period, Adam and Eve are thrust into a bleak Antediluvian world. Thomas Cole, 1828 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
He painted lush landscapes throughout the North Eastern United States "including the White Mountains in New Hampshire in 1827 and the Niagara Falls in 1829." [ABC Gallery.com] That summer he went to England and then, in 1831 toured Europe.
NYC – Metropolitan Museum of Art – Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (Photo credit: wallyg)
He based his famous The Course of Empire series on landscapes he'd seen in Europe.
Thomas Cole – The Consummation of the Empire – WGA05143 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
He moved back to New York and married Maria Bartow in 1836 a big year "The newlyweds settled in the village of Catskill, where Cole had made a habit of spending summers before his departure to Europe." [ABC Gallery.com]
WLA brooklynmuseum Thomas Cole Catskill Mountains Morning 1844 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cole continued to paint, and lecture until 1848 when he was "struck by a debilitating disease which left him with a lung infection…. After lingering for almost a week, Cole died on February 8, 1848." [ibid]
Thomas Cole (Photo credit: Paul Lowry)
For a nice interactive tour of Cole's artwork CLICK HERE
To learn about the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill CLICK HERE
Hudson River School Exhibit: Timeless Virtues of the 19th Century (theepochtimes.com)
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In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore.
The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office.
Visualising Basic Parameters (by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): Sajjad and Sumandro bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project.
Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa (organised by CIS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Goa, March 7, 2013). The Access to Knowledge team was invited by Nikhil Dixit from BITS to organise a Wikipedia editing session. Nitika Tandon led the editing session.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop (organised by CIS, Institution of Engineers, JLB Road, Mysore, March 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the event.
Wiki Women's Day in Goa (organised by the Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Nirmala Institute of Education, Panaji, Goa, March 8, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop held on International Working Women's Day, and shares the developments in this report.
Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers (organised by Wikimedia Chapter India, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath and CIS, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore, March 17, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.
Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 (co-organised with the Telegu Wikipedia community, Hyderabad, April 9 to 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan is participating in this event as a speaker. A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad.
Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 (organised by Wikimedia India, Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar, Bangalore, March 8, 2013). The event was covered by Kannada Prabha on March 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event.
Wikipedia at Avenir (organised by the Wikipedia community, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 11, 2013). CIS supported the event.
Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on 'Digital Literacy' at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report.
Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore (Prajavani, March 25, 2013).


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