I found the thunderstorm in Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorn - The Oxbow, 1836 one of the more interesting paintings. I think it is interesting how the landscape is divided into two sections, a forest and field. Storms are said to represent, "the coming sectional crisis and tension over the encoaching technology that threaten the landscape" (Iconography of Hudson River School)). With the storm on the side of the forest, I think it can be argued that the forest side will soon look like the field side.
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