Published on the occasion of the exhibition New Frontier: American Art Enters the Louvre. Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America, Musée du Louvre until April 16, 2012. Since 1975, the Louvre has had in its collection a luminous painting by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), "The Cross in the Wilderness", which is the culmination of his quest to portray a certain type of American landscape - the wilderness, the mythical archetype of grandiose and unspoiled nature. He drew inspiration from early American literary works, including "The Last of the Mohicans",
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