The Oxbow

The Oxbow
ArtistThomas Cole
Year1836
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions130.8 cm × 193 cm (51+1⁄2 in × 76 in)
LocationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession08.228

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a seminal American landscape painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. The 1836 painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. It has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.

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