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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
Thomas Cole's is a typical American success story, emigrating from England at the age of 17 and working his way from a job as a humble wood engraver to a pioneering landscape painter. Becoming a key inspiration for the archetypal nineteenth-century American art movement, the Hudson River School, Cole received little in the way of practical training. Aiming to imbue the maligned genre of landscape painting with a new-found respectability, Cole inspired American artists of the era to infuse their reproductions of the national terrain with moral and spiritual meaning. Primarily self-taught, Cole was bought up in the same billowing surroundings of industrial England that so inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner, the preeminent Romantic landscape painter. Dream of Arcadia, painted in 1838, is a vision of the Ancient Greek province that had become a byword for pastoral utopia. Utilised as subject by poets, painters, and writers as an idyllic high-water mark for what man should strive for, the concept made the transition between Renaissance mythology and nineteenth-century Romanticism. Yet, unlike utopian ideals, Arcadia is not seen as a state that can be achieved and instead something which has been lost; a world to mourn.
Painted only two years after his ambitious landscape series 'The Course of Empire', Cole's Dream of Arcadia is a succinct encapsulation of the themes explored therein. Cole's rapid ascent to popular acclaim allowed him to take the Grand Tour of Europe, spending a year visiting Florence, Rome, and Naples. The product of the crumbling debris of empire that he found there inspired his images of a rubble-strewn Arcadia. Dream of Arcadia is thus an imagined reproduction of an imaginary city after a dramatic rise and catastrophic fall. Comparable to the ruins of classical states, Cole's vision articulates the fleeting existence of man and his works, and the continuous resurgence of the natural world.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Dream of Arcadia, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Dream of Arcadia that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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