After traveling through Greece, Italy, and the Near East in the late 1860's, this painter built Olana, a great Persian mansion, on a bluff overlooking the Hudson river. Fascinated by Humboldt's explorations, he had earlier visited Ecuador and Colombia, from which he created large works like Heart of the Andes in his New York studio. FTP, who is this only pupil of Thomas Cole, a member of the Hudson River School whose works include New England Sce
After traveling through Greece, Italy, and the Near East in the late 1860's, this painter built Olana, a great Persian mansion, on a bluff overlooking the Hudson river. Fascinated by Humboldt's explorations, he had earlier visited Ecuador and Colombia, from which he created large works like Heart of the Andes in his New York studio. FTP, who is this only pupil of Thomas Cole, a member of the Hudson River School whose works include New England Scenery and Twilight in the Wilderness?
After traveling through Greece, Italy, and the Near East in the late 1860's, this painter built Olana, a great Persian mansion, on a bluff overlooking the Hudson river.