In today’s episode we’re looking at “Childhood” by Thomas Cole. It’s the first of a series of enormous paintings he did called “The Voyage of Life.”
We’ll find out how Cole used this series to push the boundaries of landscape painting from just pretty pictures to something much more meaningful. And we’ll learn why the Gallery’s version isn’t the original!
SHOW NOTES
“A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/
Episode music:
“Scenes from Childhood,” Op. 15, Robert Schumman https://musopen.org/music/2326-scenes-from-childhood-op-15/
“His Last Share of the Stars” by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle
Artwork information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52450.html
https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/cole-the-voyage-of-life-childhood.html
Thomas Cole information
https://thomascole.org/biography-of-thomas-cole/
https://thomascole.org/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-PDF-for-Website-2022.pdf
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
https://thomascole.org/
For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2804
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