Thomas Cole painting and the Seward House Museum

[Linda Anderson]

Thanks Craig and Gene.

Here's a fascinating article on Cole and "Portage Falls on the Genesee."

"'All American landscape painting, as we really know it, comes through him,' said Marlene Hamann-Whitmore, who - as director of education at the Memorial Art Galley of the University of Rochester - has written about Cole's visit to the Genesee River gorge, bordered by Livingston and Wyoming counties."

The companion painting, "Portage Falls," is on display at the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art.

http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/...t_436.html