The Oxbow [SEP] collection
, the painting was acquired from his estate by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, wife of Russell Sage. Olivia Sage was a known philanthropist, and her transfer of "The Oxbow" to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1908 would seem rather natural. However, she may have been inspired by a similar gesture in 1904 by Samuel P. Avery, Jr., who donated "The Titan's Goblet", another of Cole's well-known paintings, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Furthermore, Olivia Sage's attorney, Robert
May Come". Dozens of paintings Hannock began in 1996 were the foundation for the film's "Painted World" scenes.
In 2000, an exhibition of paintings inspired by views of the Oxbow in the Connecticut River, subject of Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow" (1836), included Hannock's "The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded, (Flooded River for the Matriarchs, E. & A. Mongan), Green Light" (2000) It is held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan