Distant View of Niagara Falls

1. Frank Sabin, London, by 1936; M. Knoedler & Co., London, 1937. Mrs. Edith Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, London, by 1946; to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Nineteenth Century American Masters</em>, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat.
• Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, <em>Thomas Cole 1801–1848: One Hundred Years Later</em>, Nov. 12, 1948–Jan. 2, 1949, cat. 155, as <em>Niagara Falls</em>; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 8–30, 1949.
• Arts Club of Chicago, <em>The American Landscape</em>, Nov. 14–Dec. 29, 1973, cat. 4.
• Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, <em>Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901</em>, Sept. 21–Nov. 24, 1985; Buffalo, NY, Knox Art Gallery, July 13–Sept. 1, 1985; Corcoran Gallery of Art, New–York Historical Society, Jan. 22–Apr. 27, 1986.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2838/window-on-the-west-chicago-and-the-art-of-the-new-frontier-1890-1940"><em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em></a>, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings</em>, Jan. 30–May 13, 2018, cat. 19; London, The National Gallery, June 11–Oct. 7, 2018.

• Julia D. Sophronia Snow, “Delineators of the Adams–Jackson American Views,” Antiques (November 1936): 214–19.
• Louis Legrand Noble, The Life and Works of Thomas Cole (Belknap Press, 1964).
• Howard S. Merritt, “A Wild Scene, Genesis of a Painting: Appendix I: Correspondence between Thomas Cole and Robert Gilmor, Jr.” Baltimore Museum of Art Annual 2 (1967): 41–81.
• Henry H. Glassie, “Thomas Cole and Niagara Falls,” New–York Historical Quarterly 58, 2 (April 1974): 89–111.
• “Reevaluation of a Thomas Cole Painting,” Museum Studies 8 (1973): 96–108.
• Matthew Baigell, Thomas Cole (Watson–Guptill Publications, 1981).
• J. Bard McNulty, ed., The Correspondence of Thomas Cole and Daniel Wadsworth (Connecticut Historical Society, 1983).
• Elizabeth McKinsey, Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime (Cambridge University Press, 1985).
• Ellwood Parry III, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination (University of Delaware Press, 1988).
• Earl A. Powell, Thomas Cole (Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1990).
• Angela Miller, The Empire of the Eye (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993).
• Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature, exh. cat., (Albany Institute of History and Art, 1993).

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