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July 26, 2006	A Natural Canvas The Boston Globe Patricia Harris and David Lyon CATSKILL, N.Y. In the typical Hudson River School painting, masses of cumulus clouds rise above an outsize vista of river and mountains. We always figured that those scenes were embellished by artistic license until we visited the painters' haunts where the northern Catskill Mountains meet the Hudson River Valley. As we crossed the Hudson on the high bridge at Castleton, the scenery was in our faces. We looked downriver past Rattlesnake and Coxsackie islands, and saw heaps of Read entire article... (1303 words)
June 19, 2005	The Hudson River School The New York Times Susan Catto We want to see some of the sights that the Hudson River School painted, if any of those places still exist. Can you suggest an itinerary, book or pamphlet that would guide us? Read entire article...
January 21, 2005	Found underground Daily Freeman Bonnie Langston, Freeman staff The next Sunday salon at the Catskill home of Thomas Cole, founder of the famed 19th-century Hudson River School of painting, will be led by a man who learned of the artist a relatively short time ago and in a rather unusual venue - a New York City subway stop. Read entire article...
September 19, 2004	Restored studio paints a life Times Union Timothy Cahill "Do you know that I have got a new painting-room?" wrote Thomas Cole to fellow painter Asher B. Durand near the end of 1839. "It answers pretty well ... and being removed from the noise and bustle of the house, is really charming." Read entire article...
September 12, 2004	Inside the artist's studio: Cole's work space being restored Daily Freeman Jonathan Ment, Freeman staff An old barn behind the Thomas Cole house on Spring Street in Catskill has been an antiques shop, an apartment house and, yes, a residence for animals. Read entire article...
August 15, 2004	An American virtuoso of urgent visions Times Union Timothy Cahill, Staff writer "To walk with nature as a poet," wrote Thomas Cole, "is the necessary condition of a perfect artist." Read entire article...
March 6, 2004	Cole's 19th-century art studio getting a facelift Daily Freeman Fred Johnsen, Freeman staff Thomas Edison had Menlo Park, Theodore Roosevelt had Sagamore Hill, and within these places were "inner sanctums." For Edison his laboratory, for Roosevelt his trophy room. Read entire article...