Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

While the theme is the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden it is clear that the painting is more concernend with nature, or at least nature as it exists outside the garden

Thomas Cole was an English-born American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. One of the major 19th-century American painters, he is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century.