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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 ...

Nathan Machoka

Thomas Cole's painting, 'The Voyage of Life: Youth.'