# Tornado in an American Forest

- By: Thomas Cole (American, 1801 - 1848)
- Date: 1831
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 117.79 × 164.15 cm (46 3/8 × 64 5/8 in.) ; framed: 151.13 × 198.12 × 13.34 cm (59 1/2 × 78 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1877)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195574.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/352633bc-33db-4252-bb1b-d8ef9c03e572/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)