Thomas Cole’s ‘Voyage of Life’: Finding Joy in the Journey
In the late 1830s, Thomas Cole, an English-born American painter, was keen on advancing landscape painting to convey religion and moral values. In 1842, Cole fulfilled his aspiration by completing a four-part Romantic-style landscape painting, The Voyage of Life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age. Cole believed the genre of landscape painting could show universal ...
