Thomas Cole - 6" x 9" decoupage tray

Art: Painted in 1836, 'The Oxbow'—is Cole’s most iconic and complex landscape, embodying the ideals and tensions at the heart of the Hudson River School depicting a view of the Connecticut River Valley from Mount Holyoke, where a distinctive oxbow bend of the river curves through the cultivated farmland below. It includes a self-portrait of the artist painting in nature.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) English-born founder of the Hudson River School, Cole shaped 19th-century American art with Romantic, allegorical landscapes expressing both reverence for nature and anxiety over industrial progress.

John Derian decoupage: is collaged paper under handblown glass in his studio in New York City, where he employs a small staff of artisans to assist with production.