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Eye Candy for Today: Cole's Youth

The Voyage of Life: Youth, Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Youth, Thomas Cole

On Wikimedia Commons, with link to a higher-resolution image and images of the other three paintings in Cole’s The Voyage of Life series.

Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C., which has a description of the work as well as the others in the series.


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  1. Issues with the h e i r s of US banker and philantropist Samuel Ward Sr who commissioned Thomas Cole “TVoL’ series, but died unexpectedly in 1839, incited him to paint a second set whilst in Rome during the winter of 1841-’42.
    Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute (Museum of Art) in Utica, NY, houses the originals.