HISTORY & THEMES VIDEO: 3.7 Thomas Cole: The Oxbow

What is written in Hebrew on the slopes of the distant mountain in Thomas Cole's The Oxbow?

The Almighty

Cole was the first great landscape painter in . . .

America

A wide meander in a river created by increased erosion on one bank and deposition on the other is called . . .

An Oxbow

What is NOT true of Thomas Cole's painting The Oxbow? - he painting has religious significance - it was painted in Cole's studio from a pencil sketch - the painting comments on the gradual destruction of the American wilderness - the blasted tree in the foreground symbolizes death

Each answer shown is correct

Thomas Cole was born in . . .

England

Thomas Cole painted The Oxbow outdoors; we know this to be true because he places himself with an easel in the foreground of the work.

False

Thomas Cole's most famous painting, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, was most likely called The Oxbow because of its resemblance to the u-shaped collar of an ox yoke.

False

In The Oxbow, three Hebrew letters written upside-down on the slope of a distant mountain spell out . . .

The Almighty