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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...