Sunrise in the Catskills by Thomas Cole https://www.nga.gov/artworks/71025-sunrise-catskills
In the spring of 1826, Thomas Cole met Robert Gilmor Jr., a highly knowledgeable and sophisticated Baltimore collector, who soon commissioned a view of Catskill Mountain House, a popular hotel overlooking the Hudson River Valley. After a summer spent sketching and painting in the area and corresponding with his patron concerning the selection of a new subject, Cole completed Sunrise in the Catskills in early December and had it delivered to Baltimore on Christmas Day.
This is not a tamed and cultivated portion of the American landscape but a remote, wild
