托马斯·科尔油画作品《雨后纽约埃塞克斯郡施鲁恩山风景》高清图片

作品简介

　　这座被艺术家昵称为"施鲁恩山"的山峰，官方名称实为霍夫曼山。在创作这幅阿迪朗达克山景的两年前，科尔就在《论美国风景》中激昂宣称"我们依然身处伊甸园"，以此捍卫美洲荒野的神圣性。艺术家虽在初夏完成实地写生，却在画室创作时以烈焰般的秋色重现此景——这一选择暗含民族主义情怀：他曾断言"美国森林的秋日壮美，堪称冠绝全球"。

　　科尔在画面右前景的密林中精心描绘了两名原住民身影。当时，阿迪朗达克山区仍是密西西比河以东少数未被强制清场的原住民栖居地。这些阿尔冈昆与易洛魁族人虽得以在此延续渔猎传统，却不得不在白人拓荒者带来的木材业、采矿业和旅游业的夹缝中，艰难重塑生存方式。

Nicknamed "Schroon Mountain" by the artist, the peak's official name is Hoffman Mountain.

Championing the American wilderness, Cole declared, "We are still in Eden," in hisEssay on American Scenery,published two years before he painted this view of the Adirondacks. The artist sketched the scene in early summer, but when he created the painting in his studio, he rendered it in a dramatic blaze of fall colors. Such a choice likely had nationalistic overtones; he once proclaimed that autumn was "one season where the American forest surpasses all the world in gorgeousness."

Cole included two Indigenous men in the painting’s right foreground foliage. At this time, the Adirondacks remained home to many Native Americans long after most had been forcibly removed from land east of the Mississippi River. While continuing to live, hunt, and fish in the area, these Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples were compelled to significantly adapt their existence amid increasing White settlement and its attendant lumber, mining, and tourist industries.