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Mt. Desert Island, Maine Coast

Frederic Edwin Church1850

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

A large group of rocks at lower right foreground, jut out into a body of water. On the horizon line at center left is the distant shoreline. Two small sailboats at center. Scattered clouds fill top half of painting.

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  • Title: Mt. Desert Island, Maine Coast
  • Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
  • Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
  • Date Created: 1850
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
  • Medium: Oil on cream wove paper
  • Provenance: Louis P. Church
  • Paper Support: Cream wove paper
  • Inscribed: In brush and black oil paint, bottom right: "M. Desert / 1850".
  • Exhibitions: Philadelphia, PA - The Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania. Frederic Edwin Church: Under Changing Skies,September 26 - December 13, 1992; travelled to: Kathona, NY - Katonah Museum of Art, January 9 - March 14, 1993; Hanover, NH - The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, April 10-June 20, 1993.San Diego, CA - Galleries of Claremount College, November 6 - December 19, 1975; traveled to San Diego, CA - January 10 - February 29, 1976; Minnesota, Univeresity of Minnesota, March 29 - May 9, 1976.New York - Graham Gallery, Frederic Edwin Church, December 17, 1974-January 11, 1975.
  • Dimensions: 19.6 x 30.5 cm (7 11/16 x 12 in.)
  • Bibliography: Elaine Evans Dee, Frederick E. Church: Under Changing Skies (Philadelphia: Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania, 1992) pp. 11, 53, 61 (ill.) cat. no. 2
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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