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Article: Paintings of the Adirondack Mountains.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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The Adirondack Mountains in northern New York State were discovered by artists well after they had come to know the Catskill Mountains north of New York City and the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Until the third decade of the nineteenth century this wilderness north of Albany, New York, was felt to be so inhospitable that it was not worth exploring.
Thomas Cole's biographer, Louis Legrand Noble (1813-1882), chronicled a two-week-long trip in September 1846 to Long Lake, deep in the Adirondacks, with Cole, two companions, and a guide:
The wilderness, haunted by the great moose, the wolf, the bear and panther, seems almost interminable, and nearly houseless: ...