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Vision of the Cross
Frederic Edwin Churchafter 1847
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal broadly brushed study of a cavernous setting with several cascades falling into a lake as two people, indicated in the right foreground, stand on a bridge spanning a river and stare at a cross, hovering at upper left, against a blue gray sky; a herd of animals, in the left distance.
Details
- Title: Vision of the Cross
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: after 1847
- Physical Dimensions: w255 x h179.5 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint on paperboard.
- Provenance: Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Markings: Verso: Stamped in ink ?, at ?: Cooper Union Stamps: brown rectancle with cut corners: Cooper-Union/Museum/New York and blue/grey wreath in center: Museum/for the/ Arts of/ Decoration/Cooper-Union.
- Inscribed: Verso: Inscribed in graphite, at lower edge: "Presented 1917 / by Mr. L.P. Church 245 G"
- Exhibitions: Roslyn, NY - Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, "William Cullen Bryant and the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting," May 16, 1981- July 19, 1981.Washington, DC - Circulated by S.I.T.E.S, "Close Observation, Sellected Oil Sketches by Frederic Edwin Church," 1978-1980, no.1.Cambridge, MA - Wellesley College Museum, "?," September 9, 1976 - October 31, 1976.Claremont, CA - Galleries of Claremont Colleges, "?," November 6, 1975 - December 19, 1975; Traveled to: San Diego, CA - Fine Arts Galleries, January 10, 1976 - February 29, 1976; Minneapolis, MI, March 29, 1976 - May 9, 1976.New York, NY - Graham Gallery, "Frederic Edwin Church", December 17, 1974 - January 11, 1975.Washington, D.C. - NMAA/SI (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts), "Frederic Edwin Church" February 9, 1966 - March 13, 1966; Travelled to: Albany, NY - Institute of History and Art, March 30, 1966 - April 30, 1966; New York, NY - Knoedler Galleries, June 1, 1966 - June 30, 1966, cat. 150.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 18 x 25.5 cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 1 in.)
- Bibliography: Sweeney, J. Gray. "Endued with Rare Genius, Frederic Edwin Church's 'To The Memory of Cole," Smithsonian Studies in American Art, National Museum of American Art, Winter 1988, 61plate 21 (illus.)
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