3469007 View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm?he Oxbow, 1836 (oil on canvas) by Cole, Thomas (1801-1848); 130.8x193 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Connecticut River near Northampton, "a union of the picturesque, the sublime, and the magnificent." Cole has shown himself in the middle distance, perched on a promontory painting the Oxbow - an American producing American art, in communion with American scenery. ); American, out of copyright.