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Cotopaxi seen from Ambato, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church1853
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The smoking cone of a volcano is seen at left. An outlined ridge borders the view at lower edge, and a range of old craters stretches toward the right.
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- Title: Cotopaxi seen from Ambato, Ecuador
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1853
- Physical Dimensions: w291 x h427 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard
- Viewing Notes: The smoking cone of a volcano is seen at left. An outlined ridge borders the view at lower edge, and a range of old craters stretches toward the right.
- Provenance: Gift of Louis P. Church; Frederic E. Church
- Paper Support: paperboard
- Inscribed: On verso in graphite; lower center: "presented 1917/by Mr. L.P. Church 254D"
- Exhibitions: Warwickshire, UK - Compton Verney, "Volcano," July 24 - October 31, 2010.London, UK - The Tate Britain, "The American Sublime," February 20 - March 19, 2002; traveled to: Philadelphia, PA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June 17 - August 25, 2002; Minneapolis, MN - Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 22 - November 17, 2002.Arcata, CA - Humboldt State University Art Department, "75th Anniversary Exhibition, Baron Alexander von Humboldt," January 26 - February 25, 1989.Washington, D.C. - SAAM [formerly National Museum of American Art], "Frederic Edwin Church: Images of Cotopoxi," March 29 - July 14, 1985.Winston-Salem, NC. - Reynolda House, "Frederic Church," December 5, 1980 - January 31, 1981.New York, NY - CHNDM, "Close Observation: Selected OIl Sketches by Frederic E. Church," traveled by S. I. T. E. S. 1978 -1980.Washington, D.C.- S. I. T. E. S., "American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting," August 31, 1975 - January 31, 1977.
- Dimensions: 29.1 x 42.7 cm (11 7/16 x 16 13/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Manthorne, Katherine. Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church. (Washington, D.C,: SI Press/NMAA, 1985) 79 [illus. no.19]. Wilton, Andrew and Tim Barringer. The American Sublime, Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880 (London: Tate Britain, 2002) 175 (illus.54).Navas Sanz de Santamaria, Pablo. The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador, April-October 1853 (Bogata, Colombia: Villegas Editores in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008), 32, b.
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