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Frontispiece PORTRAIT OF THOMAS COLE by Thomas Seir Cummings. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4" x 29 1/4" (92 x 74.3 cm). Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York. First published in 1981 in New York by Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of Billboard Publications, Inc., 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Baigell, Matthew. Thomas Cole. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848. 2. Landscape painters - United States-Biography. I. Title. ND237 C6B3 759.13 81-3379 SBN 0-8230-0647-6 AACR2 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means-graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems-without written permission of the publisher. Manufactured in Japan First Printing, 1981