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Studies of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church1857
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Four studies of Mount Chimborazo: top peak, rising in background over clouds and rest of mountain range; lower foreground, snow-covered peak surrounded by clouds and sky; bottom right, two adjacent studies framed by graphite lines. Bottom study, ochre colored foreground with mountainous landscape and green fields.
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- Title: Studies of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1857
- Physical Dimensions: w446 x h298 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint, graphite, on thin paper laminate
- Provenance: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Exhibitions: Hamburg, Germany - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Artists, Explorers, Travelers. Landscape Painting Around 1800 - From Inward View to Scientific Discovery, October 25, 2002 - February 23, 2003.]New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Church's Great Picture: the Heart of the Andes, October 5, 1993-January 30, 1994.New York - CHNDM, Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic Edwin Church, (circulated by S.I.T.E.S.) April 29-July 27, 1980.S.I.T.E.S. - Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, August 31, 1975-January 31, 1977.New York, NY - Graham Gallery, Frederic Edwin Church, December 17, 1974-January 11, 1975.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 29.8 x 44.6 cm (11 3/4 x 17 9/16 in.)Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)Frame H x W x D: 44.8 x 60.3 x 2.5 cm (17 5/8 x 23 3/4 x 1 in.)
- Bibliography: American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900 (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975), no. 19, pl. 32.Avery, Kevin J., Church's Great Picture: The Heart of the Andes (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993) pp. 23, 24, fig. 12.Carr, Gerald L. , Frederic Edwin Church (Cambridge: University Press, 1994) p. 238.Howoldt, Jenns E. and Uwe M. Schneede, Expedition Kunst: Die Entdeckung der Natur von C.D. Friedrich bis Humboldt (Hamburg, Germany: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Dolling und Galitz, 2002) 210 [31]Stebbins, Jr.,Theodore E., Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978) p. 67, no. 30, repr.Avery, Kevin J., Church's Great Picture: The Heart of the Andes (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993) pp. 23, 24, fig. 12.Carr, Gerald L. , Frederic Edwin Church (Cambridge: University Press, 1994) p. 238.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), 105.
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