Thomas Cole, “Kaaterskill Falls” (1826), oil on canvas, 25 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches (image courtesy the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT) But Cole’s relationship to nature was not ...

Thomas Cole, an English landscape painter and founder of the renowned Hudson River School of Art, depicted the picturesque cascade in his well-known painting, "Falls of Kaaterskill." Over time ...