Catskill Stream, Autumn Foliage

Provenance

The artist, until 1848
Private collection, by descent from above
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, by 1980
The Tanenbaum Family Collection, New York
Sale, Phillips, American Spirit: Property from the Tanenbaum Family Collection, New York, New York, May 21, 2026, lot 227

Exhibited

Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, An Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Cole N.A. from the artist’s studio, Catskill, New York, November 24–December 1964, no. 6.
Nelson Bergstrom Art Center, Neenah, Wisconsin, Nineteenth Century American Art, February 9–March 6, 1966.
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, Selected American Masterworks, John Singleton Copley to Jack Levine 1770 to 1979, December 4, 1979–January 5, 1980, no. 3.
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York, William Cullen Bryant and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting, May 19–June 19, 1981.
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, The American Tradition: Part I, Paintings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, November 23, 1982–January 14, 1983, no. 18.
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, The Empire State: American Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints, January 1986, no. 65.

Literature

Kennedy Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Cole N.A. from the artist’s studio, Catskill, New York (Kennedy Galleries, 1964), 3, no. 6 (illustrated; erroneously catalogued as oil on canvas).
Kennedy Galleries, Selected American Masterworks, John Singleton Copley to Jack Levine 1770 to 1979 (Kennedy Galleries, 1979), no. 3 (illustrated).
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, William Cullen Bryant and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1981), 23, 34 (illustrated), fig. 18.
Kennedy Galleries, The American Tradition: Part I, Paintings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Kennedy Galleries, 1982), no. 18 (illustrated).
Gloria Gilda-Deák, Kennedy Galleries’ Profiles of American Artists (Kennedy Galleries, 1984), 260, no. 20 (illustrated).
Kennedy Galleries, The Empire State: American Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints (Kennedy Galleries, 1986), no. 65 (illustrated).

Related Works

The Hunter’s Return, 1845, oil on canvas, 40 1/8 x 60 1/2 inches; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
View of Catskill Creek, c. 1833, oil on composition board, 17 x 25 inches; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York.

Note

Cole painted in Catskill every year, from 1826 until his unexpected death in 1848. This work was found in Cole’s Catskill studio, which he designed in 1846, at the time of his death, and was passed down through his descendants.