Cole's View From Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts and Whitman's Leaves of Grass: Ways The Artist Portrays Themselves To The Viewer Many people enjoy those authors and or painters that include themselves in their work. The viewer then has the ability to relate to the work more easily as well as to the creator. This can be seen in both Thomas Cole’s painting View From Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts(The Oxbow) and in Walt Whitman’s 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Both Whitman and Cole can be seen as artists . There are some similarities as well as differences in the way each artist presents hims