So yesterday we went to see the work of Thomas Cole and Frederic Church at the Albany Institute. Today we went to see the places where they did their work. The Thomas Cole house on Spring Street in Catskill, Kaaterskill Falls, in which Thomas Cole painted, and Olana, which is the name for Frederic Church's home. The experience at the Thomas Cole house was definitely interesting. Our tour guide was a little up tight and kinda bossy, definitely a person that I would not want to meet very often, but it was still pretty cool to look at all of the thing inside Thomas Cole's house and Studio. The Thomas Cole house is 199 years old, which I though was pretty interesting.
Thomas Cole's Easel and chair
Thomas Cole's oval palette
Trunk in Thomas Cole's bedroom
After we took a tour through the house, we got to look inside Thomas Cole's studio. I thought this was awesome because a replica of his Voyage of Life painting was there. I also never thought about the light when it came to drawing or painting but it does make a huge difference.
replica of one of Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life paintings
Work bench in the painting studio
When we left the Thomas Cole house, we went on our hike at Kaaterskill Clove.
View From Kaaterskill Clove
The picture below shows the first view of the falls and everyone thought it was amazing. I pass these falls weekly when I go to Prattsville. It is an amazing site, but what you see when you hike up further is even more amazing.
Both top and bottom picture are lower portion of Kaaterskill Falls
Michael, Michelle, Krista, and Kassianna by the falls
The top picture shows our crazy classmates that climbed past the trail to stand directly by the falls. The bottom picture shows the entire falls. If you look close enough you can see Michael and the girls on their way back. Once we departed from this beautiful site, we headed back down the mountain so we could go eat lunch. It was here that I rolled my ankle and fell on my face. At the time my foot was a little sore, though it did not hurt that bad, so I ventured on. We finished the hike back down the mountain and proceeded to South lake which is a few miles up the road to eat our lunch. I was still okay at this point. We left south lake and went on a hike to the Catskill Mountain House. This hike was no where near as tough as the Kaaterskill Falls hike, however by this point my ankle was swelling, I knew this because my boot was getting tighter and tighter, but I soldiered on.
Kaaterskill Falls
The bend in the River
View from Catskill Mountain House Site
When we left the Catskill Mountain House site, we went to Olana. It was much more than I expected. Located in Hudson, right across the river from Catskill, this place is stunning. I wasn't expecting it to look like this. I was amazed that the house was based off of ideas from Church's trip through the Middle East and Europe. Each room had influences from a different country. It was amazing the details and designs that where throughout the house. It was kind of a bummer that we couldn't take pictures inside the house because it was more stunning than the outside. It is definitely something that I would visit more often. It is very close to where I live and its not that expensive to get in. I would just want to sit on the property and think. The sites that we got to see from this place where breath taking. I would definitely recommend going here to any one.
Olana (both top and bottom picture)
View from Olana
Today was an amazing day. Other than spraining my ankle on the Kaaterskill hike, I enjoyed the day. I even got to gloat to Krista that for once I would be home before her. hahaha
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