"The Falls of Kaaterskill" 1826 by Thomas Cole

Cole wrote: "The waterfall...at once presents to the mind the beautiful, but apparently incongruous idea, of fixedness and motion - a single existence in which we perceive unceasing change and everlasting duration. The waterfall may be called the voice of the landscape, for, unlike the rocks and woods which offer sounds as the passive instruments played upon by the elements, the waterfall strikes its own chords, and rocks and mountains re-echo in rich unison...."

The Forest near Kaaterskill by Thomas Locker

Asher B.Durand's "Kindred Spirits" depicting Thomas Cole at Kaaterskill Falls

Canyon on Kaaterskill Creek by Thomas Locker

See more of Thomas Locker's Art at his site