Thomas Cole: The English Immigrant Who Painted America's Rise — and Its Fall
America's greatest landscape painter was an Englishman from a mill town. Meet Thomas Cole: a shop-window discovery, a self-portrait hidden inside The Oxbow, and The Course of Empire — a five-part prophecy about the country he adopted.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Lonely Painter Behind the Most Famous Back in Art
You know the man on the rock with his back to you. Meet the painter behind it: Caspar David Friedrich — fog, moonlight, a brother lost under the ice, landscapes that are beautiful lies, and the quiet picture that inspired Waiting for Godot.