Summer Twilight, A Recollection of a Scene in New-England is an 1834 oil-on-wood painting by British-born American painter Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School.

However, the axe-hewn stump in the foreground foreshadows the arrival of European civilization.

[2] Tom Christopher wrote that “[Thomas] Cole’s greatest artistic asset proved to be his untutored eye.”[3] Cole emigrated to America with his family in the spring of 1819 at the age of eighteen.

[4] As a child, his surroundings were of Lancashire, England, an area known to be an epicenter of Britain’s primarily industrial region.

This work was also created in tandem with the similar painting Autumn Twilight, View of Conway Peak, New Hampshire.