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The Architect's Dream
is an 1840
oil-on-canvas painting
created by
Thomas Cole
for the New York architect
Ithiel Town
. Cole incorporated pieces of architecture from
Egyptian
,
Greek
,
Roman
and
Gothic
styles in various parts of the painting, having himself done some architecture work previously. Cole finished the painting in only five weeks and displayed it in the
National Academy of Design
's annual exhibition that year. Town refused to accept the painting, claiming that it was "exclusively architectural".
The Architect's Dream
is now in the
Toledo Museum of Art
in
Toledo, Ohio
.
Painting credit:
Thomas Cole
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