Art Keeper

Atlas

The lives, circles and cities behind the paintings

Story

Where the American Sky Came From

How an English painter's storms crossed the Atlantic and became the American wilderness.

Sources: National GalleryBritannica

Each of the 3 paintings in this story is a puzzle. Solve them to reveal the paintings and read how each one leads to the next.

Sign in to count your solves
1

In 1844, aged eighteen, Frederic Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York. Cole wrote that the boy had 'the finest eye for drawing in the world'.

Source: Wikipedia
Pro puzzle
2

Cole was born in Lancashire and emigrated to America at seventeen. In 1825 a steamboat trip up the Hudson gave him the wild country that made his name, and founded a school of American landscape.

Sources: Wikipedia: Thomas ColeWikipedia: Hudson River School
Pro puzzle

The artists knew each other

Solve this puzzle and stop 1 to read how they connect.

3

Cole spent 1829 to 1832 back in England and in Italy. The Hudson River painters he led took their lessons from European masters, and above all from the English painter of storm and light, J. M. W. Turner.

Sources: Wikipedia: Hudson River SchoolWikipedia: Thomas Cole
Pro puzzle

Inspired by

Solve this puzzle and stop 2 to read how they connect.