America’s Eden: Thomas Cole and “The Voyage of Life”
Opens Today
On view through September 14

Discover a landmark of American art by Thomas Cole, a leader of the Hudson River School. Cole’s allegorical paintings, The Voyage of Life, depict the course of a man’s life as a river journey through four magical landscapes. Cole’s masterpiece, which rarely travels, will be accompanied by 41 American landscape paintings and works on paper from the permanent collections of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York.

Read more about this breathtaking exhibition here.

Above: Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood (detail), 1840, oil on canvas, 52 x 78 in. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY