Oil Painting "The Course of Empire The Savage State" from Thomas Cole - Buy Hand Painted Oil Reproduction

The Course of Empire is a five-part series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36. It is notable in part for reflecting popular American sentiments of the times when many saw pastoralism as the ideal phase of human civilization fearing that empire would lead to gluttony and inevitable decay. The first painting The Savage State shows the valley from the shore opposite the crag in the dim light of a dawning stormy day. A hunter clad in skins hastens through the wilderness pursuing a deer canoes paddle up the river on the far shore can be seen a clearing with a cluster of wigwams around a fire the nucleus of the city that is to be. The visual references are those of Native American life.

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