In 1844 the English-born landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) left New York to work for a time at Mount Desert in Maine. In doing so, he expanded the so-called Hudson River School's field of operations and helped popularize summer art trips to the down east coast. In fact, the same interest and similar artistic concerns had begun to appear in Maine during the 1820's through the efforts of painter Charles Codman and critic John Neal. In the following decades the Isle of Shoals, Monhegan, Ogunquit, Boothbay Harbor and Eastport would see fashionable art colonies.