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File:Cole Thomas The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton 1836).jpg, not featured[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2014 at 22:18:40 (UTC)
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow. The painting depicts a Romantic panorama of the Connecticut River Valley just after a thunderstorm. Painted by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, it has been interpreted as a confrontation between wilderness and civilization.
  •  Info created by Thomas Cole - uploaded by File Upload Bot (Cobalty) - nominated by Ktr101 -- Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:18, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:18, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - Yes, more paintings! Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 17:59, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support A nice Hudson River School painting that uses a different river. Daniel Case (talk) 21:56, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 20:18, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I always have problems judging digital reproductions of paintings entered at FPC, because I'm missing criteria for what makes such a reproduction featurable. Is it enough to have an awesome painting or or should the focus lie on the quality of the reproduction? For instance, while this certainly is an outstanding painting, I fail to see what makes this particular reproduction of it stand out against alternative versions such as this one. Sure, it has a higher resolution, but that alone doesn't make me go "Wow!". If I was able to discern individual brush strokes or the structure of the canvas, that would be a different story. This version, though smaller in size, seems to contain much more fine detail. That's likely due to downscaling or sharpening in post-processing, but if viewed at screen size it looks much sharper. As someone who hasn't seen the original, it's impossible for me to judge which one does represent the original better. In this special case, it's also bugging me quite a bit that the immediate source for the reproduction is simply stated as "unknown" though the image has been uploaded by a bot. All in all I tend to  Oppose this one. --El Grafo (talk) 16:56, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • El Grafo The image was painted by a notable painter during a notable time in American art history. While I will not dispute your views, I want to let you know that the scene looks nothing like that right now (an interstate, railroad, and a federal highway all cross the oxbow) and there is a lot of development in the area. It looks far from pastoral now, so that kind of makes the painting a bit nicer looking. Regardless, I just wanted to comment here and completely respect your rationale. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:39, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 4 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /— revimsg 14:24, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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