Even though Thomas Cole, by then in his 40s, may have been America's most established landscape painter, he wasn't wealthy himself.

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Kornhauser describes a painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the landscape-oriented, mid-19th-century Hudson River School, depicting a tourist attraction on the Connecticut River.

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At the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, a pencil sketch of "Catskill Mountain House From North Mountain" (1839-44) by Thomas Cole vividly conveys this expansive urge.

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The Emerson Foundation, former operator of the Seward House Museum in Auburn, announced last week in a letter to supporters that Thomas Cole's 1839 landscape titled "Portage Falls on the Genesee" had been removed and stored in a secured location.

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Cole and Associate Attorney General Thomas J.

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Cole (2), Sears, debutant Thomas Hitzlsperger and defender Winston Reid found the net against Burnley.

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With the game still goalless, and Stoke's early threat successfully nullified by a Hammers defence who had started nervously, Mido found himself unmarked when Carlton Cole's shot rebounded into his path following Thomas Sorensen's save.

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Their stout defensive display looked to have earned them a draw until Cole's shot took a touch off substitute Tristan and was deflected past the helpless Thomas Sorensen for the winner.

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