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Storm in the Mountains
Frederic Edwin Church1847
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Dominating this composition is a lightning-blasted tree embodying nature's awe-inspiring power and endless cycle of life and death. A popular motif because of these associations, the blasted tree was favored by many landscape painters like Church, who prominently featured it here.
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- Title: Storm in the Mountains
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date Created: 1847
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 98.7 x 86.4 x 9.2 cm (38 7/8 x 34 x 3 5/8 in.); Unframed: 75.5 x 62.8 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.); Former: 94.5 x 81.5 x 9 cm (37 3/16 x 32 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Provenance: Sold to E. G. Merrick, Clayton, NY (in family until 1967)-(Eldridge Gerry Merrick, E. G. Merrick II, Mrs. John P. Nevins (daughter), West Brattleboro, Vermont); Adams Davidson and Company, Washington, D. C. 1967; Hirschl and Adler, N. Y. Sold to CMA and the CMA's Prendergast The Road to the Village, New Hampshire, La Farge's Choir, and Durand's Scene among the Berkshire Hills, 10 May 1969.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.52
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed in center on tree: "F. CHURCH. 1847"
- Fun Fact: Church's spectacular home and studio is preserved as a New York State Historical Site.
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of various donors by exchange and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 1969.52
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