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Discover nature through "Wild Land, Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Landscape Painting" at the Discovery Center through May 25.



KANSAS CITY, Mo -- Nature holds random, unpredictable beauty in the wilderness landscapes painted by Thomas Cole in the early 1800s. Clouds float within touching distance of mountainsides. Dead trees lay broken and decaying in a glade but a forest full of fresh green life is beyond. Cole sought to capture nature’s profound wildness and in turn his popular paintings influenced American art, creating the Hudson River School.


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