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Artists›Frederic Edwin Church, American

Frederic Edwin Church, American

Artist

WA-00042408

Drawing

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None documented

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2056

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30%

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Artworks (38)

Hills and Cattle, Mexico

1890 · Graphite on off-white wove paper

10.2 × 17.2 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mountain Range and Figures, Mexico

1883 · Graphite on light green wove paper; verso: graphite

10.3 × 16.8 cm (4 1/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)

1879 · oil on canvas

Unframed: 118.8 x 183.2 cm (46 3/4 x 72 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Aegean Sea

1874 · Oil on canvas

54 in. × 84 1/4 in. (137.2 × 214 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Parthenon

1871 · Oil on canvas

44 1/2 x 72 5/8 in. (113 x 184.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Twilight in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

1870 · landscapes, drawing — oil and graphite on tan paperboard

26.6 × 35.8 cm (10 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Circular Pedestal in the Dionysus Theater, Athens, Greece

1869 · Brush and oil paint, graphite on tan paperboard

25.6 × 32.8 cm (10 1/16 × 12 15/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Figure and Amphora from the Museum at Athens, Greece

1869 · Graphite on gray-green wove paper

20.8 × 10.5 cm (8 3/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

View of the Sea from Athens, Greece

1869 · Oil paint on paperboard

11.3 × 18.9 cm (4 7/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Broken Column of the Parthenon, Athens

1869 · architecture, drawing — oil and graphite on tan paperboard

28 × 38.6 cm (11 × 15 3/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Gulf of Corinth, Greece

1869 · Graphite and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite

12.5 × 17.4 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cliffs and Ridges, El Yemen Valley, Palestine

1868 · Graphite on gray wove paper; verso; graphite

12.2 × 20.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cabins near Belalp, Switzerland

1868 · Graphite on light gray paper

Sheet: 11.7 x 20.5 cm (4 5/8 x 8 1/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Valère Basilica, Sion, Switzerland

1868 · Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite

12.8 × 8.6 cm (5 1/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sketches of the House of Semon the Tanner, Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Fishermen on the Rocks at Beirut, Syria (Lebanon)

1868 · Graphite on off-white wove paper

24.9 × 17.7 cm (9 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Claude's Villa and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy

1868 · Oil and graphite on tan paperboard

11.4 × 22.6 cm (4 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Jungle Foliage, Jamaica

1865 · Oil and graphite on bright green paperboard

30.4 × 50.5 cm (11 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Thunder Clouds, Jamaica

1865 · Brush and oil on paperboard

18.2 × 29.4 cm (7 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Storm in the Mountains, Jamaica

1865 · Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard

30.5 × 50.4 cm (12 in. × 19 13/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Thunder Clouds, Jamaica

1865 · Brush and oil on paperboard

18.2 × 29.4 cm (7 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Storm in the Mountains, Jamaica

1865 · Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard

30.5 × 50.4 cm (12 in. × 19 13/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wildflowers

1865 · nature studies, drawing — oil on tan paperboard

34.4 × 39.8 cm (13 9/16 × 15 11/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Autumn Colors, Vermont

1865 · landscapes, drawing — oil and graphite on off-white paperboard

11.5 × 22.6 cm (4 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Twilight in the Wilderness

1860 · oil on canvas

Unframed: 101.6 x 162.6 cm (40 x 64 in.); Framed: 124 x 185 x 13 cm (48 13/16 x 72 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (4)

32 published of 1000 catalogued · 1000 with image

Smithsonian
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Cleveland Museum of Art
4 published4 img
The Met
3 published3 img
Art Institute Chicago
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 4)

4 entries · 1 sources

Twilight in the Wilderness
1860 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Storm in the Mountains
1847 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Niagara Falls by Moonlight
1851 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)
1879 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

In collection

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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