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Callow, James T. Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers & American Artists, 1807-1855. Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.
Fair Wilderness: American Paintings in the Collection of the Adirondack Museum. Patricia C. F. Mandel. Exhibition catalogue. Buffalo, NY: Thorner-Sidney Press, Inc., for the Adirondack Museum, 1990.
Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Kelly, Franklin. Frederick Edwin Church & the National Landscape. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.
Land & Landscape: Views of America’s History & Culture. Videotape and Study Guide. Project Directed by Nora Panzer, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994.
Marrance, Bonnie, Ed. A Hudson Valley Reader: Writings from the 17th C. to the Present. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1991.
Noble, Louis Legrand. The Life & Works of Thomas Cole. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.
Novak, Barbara. Nature & Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Parry III, Elwood C. The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition & Imagination. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988.
Thomas Cole: Drawn to Nature. Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Tammis K. Groft. Essays by John R. Stilgoe, Ellwood C. Parry III, and Frances F. Dunwell. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1993.
Wild Impressions: the Adirondacks on Paper. Prints in the collection of the Adirondack Museum. Introduction by David Tatham, Text by Georgia B. Barnhill. Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher for the Adirondack Museum, 1995.
Wondrous Spaces: New York State Landscapes from New York State Museums. The Romantic Decades of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Catalogue essay & exhibition notes by Richard McLanathan. Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. 1990.
Yaeger, Bert D. The Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1996.