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Study of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
Frederic Edwin Church1857
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
South American landscape with view of snow-capped volcano.
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- Title: Study of Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: 1857
- Physical Dimensions: w522 x h344 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint, traces of graphite on paperboard
- Paper Support: Paperboard
- Exhibitions: Grand Rapids, MI - Grand Rapids Art Museum. The American Spirit: Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran. Masterworks from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. October 17, 2003 - January 4, 2004.Yonkers, New York - Hudson River Museum, "The Book of Nature: American Painters and the Natural Sublime", Oct 30 1983 - Jan 4, 1984. p 32, fig 22.Montclair, New Jersey, The Montclair Art Museum, "Close Observation" 2/3/80 - 3/23/80.Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Reynolda House, "Frederic Church" 12/5/80 - 1/31/81.Circulated by SITES " Close Observation, Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church" Dec 17, 1974 - Jan 11, 1975.Wellesley, Massachussets - Wellesley College Museum, September 9 - Oct 31, 1976.Claremont, California - Galleries of the Claremont College. Nov 6 - Dec 19 1975, Travelled to: Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Jan 10 - Feb 29, 1975, University of Minnesota, Mar 29 - May 9 1976.New York - Graham Gallery "Frederic Edwin Church", 1974 Dec 17 - Jan 11 1975.Ithaca, New York - Ithaca College Museum of Art: Drawn From Nature, Drawn From Life" Mar 23 - Apr 18, 1971, no. 2. Circulated by AFA, Oct 1972 - May 1973.Washington DC - National College of Fine Arts, "Frederic Edwin Church", Feb 9 - Mar. 13, 1966; Travelled to: Albany NY - Inst. of History and Art, Mar 30 - Apr. 30; New York - Knoedler Galleries, June 1 - 30; no. 72.
- Dimensions: 34.4 x 52.2 cm (13 9/16 x 20 9/16 in.)
- Bibliography: David C. Huntington, "The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, Vision of an American Era". Geo Braziller, New York, 1966. no. 74.William Gerdts and Jan Dreisbach, "American Views; Oil Sketches by Thomas Hill", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, 1997.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), 102.
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