View of Kaaterskill Falls

Story Of An American Cultural Icon Site 2: View From North Mountain Site 3: Mountain House Site 4: Description of Mountain Site 5: Kaaterskill Falls Site 6: Kaaterskill Clove, West Site 7: Kaaterskill Clove, East Site 8: In Kaaterskill Clove Site 9: Palenville Overlook

View of Kaaterskill Falls

“And now I must turn to another of the beautifiers of the earth– the Waterfall; which in the same object at once presents to the mind the beautiful, but apparently incongruous idea, of fixedness and motion– single existence in which we perceive unceasing change and everlasting duration.”

Thomas Cole, from “An Essay on American Scenery

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Thomas Cole, Double Waterfall — Kaaterskill Falls, ca. 1825, pencil, charcoal, black-and-white crayon on paper, 16 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches, Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund (39.503). Photograph © 1994, the Detroit Institute of Art.

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