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Eagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church1850–60
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal distant view over lakes and hills with a sun shining in a cloudy sky and reflecting in lakes beneath.
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- Title: Eagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island, Maine
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1850–60
- Physical Dimensions: w445 x h294 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard
- Viewing Notes: Panoramic view over lakes and hills with a sun shining in a cloudy sky and reflecting in lakes beneath.
- Provenance: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Paper Support: Paperboard
- Exhibitions: Rockland, ME - The Farnsworth Art Museum, "Inventing Arcadia: Artists and Trousists at Mount Desert Island,: June 13, 1999 - October 24, 1999.New York, NY - CHNDM, "Recent Acquisitions/ American Drawings," Octoer 14, 1991 - January 27, 1992.Washington, DC - SITES, "Close Observation, Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church," Circulated 1978-1980, no. 19, 61.Waterville, ME - Colby College, " Landscape in Maine," April 1970; Bowdoin, ME - Bowdoin College Art Museum, May and June, 1970; Orono, ME - University of Maine, Carnegie Gallery, July and August, 1970;, no. 25 (illus.)Washington, DC - SITES, "Sketches by Frederic Edwin Curch," Circulated July 16, 1966 - February 4, 1968.Washington, DC - NMAA/SI (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts), "Frederic Edwin Church," February 9, 1966 - March 13, 1966; Albany, NY - Institute of History and Art," March 30, 1966 - April 30, 1966; New York, NY - Knoedler Galleries, June 1, 1966 - June 30, 1966, no. 28.Detroit, MI - Detroit Institute of Arts, "The World of the Romantic Artist," December 28, 1944 - January 28, 1945, no. 73.
- Dimensions: 29.4 x 44.5 cm (11 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: E.P. Richardson. The World of the Romantic Artist" (Detroi, MIt: 1944) no. 73, p. 32Huntington, David C. The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church...", (New York, NY: George Braziller, 1966) no. 81.Malen, Lenore. "The Living Landscape of Frederic Church," American Art & Antiques, Jan/Feb 1979, pg. 79Belanger, Pamela. Inventing Acadia, Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert (Rockland, ME: Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999) p. 48, Illus. 49.
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