List of paintings by Frederic Edwin Church explained

This is a list of works by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), an American landscape painter who was part of the Hudson River School. Church's paintings were inspired by his travels, including Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North America.[1] Sketches are excluded—Church made thousands—unless they are in oil and very finished.

Works

Painting Name Year Technique data-sort-type="number"Dimensions (H×W) !Current Location
Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls) c. 1844 Oil on canvas 111.4 × 119.1 cm Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636 1846 Oil on canvas 102.24 × 153.35 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Moses Viewing the Promised Land 1846 Oil on academy board 25.4 × 31.75 cm Private collection
Storm in the Mountains 1847 Oil on canvas 75.5 × 62.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art
July Sunset[2] (also July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts) 1847 Oil on canvas Private collection[3]
North Lake 1847 Oil on canvas Private collection
To the Memory of Cole 1848 Oil on canvas 81.3 × 124.5 cm Private collection
View in Pittsford, Vermont 1848 Oil on academy board Private collection
Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from Catskill Mountains 1848 Oil on canvas 45.72 × 60.96 cm Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
West Rock, New Haven 1849 Oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Above the Clouds at Sunrise 1849 Oil on canvas 69.2 × 102.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[4]
Abandoned Skiff 1850 Oil on cardboard 28 × 43.2 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain[5]
Twilight, "Short Arbiter 'Twixt Day and Night" (Sunset) 1850 Oil on canvas Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Fog off Mount Desert 1850 Oil on board 30.48 × 39.37 cm Private collection
Otter Creek, Mt. Desert 1850 Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Beacon, off Mount Desert Island 1851 Oil on canvas Private collection
New England Scenery 1851 Oil on canvas George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Massachusetts
Camp Fire in the Maine Wilderness 1851–59 Oil on canvas 43.82 × 69.14 cm Private collection
The Wreck 1852 Oil on canvas 76.2 × 116.84 cm The Parthenon, United States
Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy 1852 Oil on canvas 55.4 × 81.12 cm Public collection
Home by the Lake 1852 Oil on canvas 81.28 × 122.55 cm Public collection
Coast Scene 1852 Oil on canvas Private collection
The Natural Bridge, Virginia 1852 Oil on canvas University of Virginia Art Museum
Autumn[6] (also Autumn on the Hudson) 1853 Oil on canvas Private collection
Mt. Ktaadn (Mt. Katahdin) 1853 Oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
Summer in South America Oil on board Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York[7]
The Falls of the Tequendama near Bogota, New Granada 1854 Oil on canvas 162.6 cm x 101.6 Cincinnati Art Museum
La Magdalena aka Scene on the Magdalena 1854 Oil on canvas 71.12 × 106.68 cm Private collection
The Cordilleras: Sunrise 1854 Oil on canvas 72.3 × 109.2 cm Private collection
A Country Home 1854 Oil on canvas 115.89 × 161.61 cm Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Tamaca Palms 1854 Oil on canvas 68 × 91.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Cotopaxi 1855 Oil on canvas 71.12 × 107 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Andes of Ecuador 1855 Oil on canvas 121.9 cm × 194.3 cm Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Cotopaxi 1855 Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas[8]
Tropical Landscape c. 1855 Oil on canvas 28 × 41.3 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid[9]
South American Landscape 1856 Oil on canvas 59.5 × 92 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Twilight (Sunset) 1856 Oil on canvas Albany Institute of History & Art
Sunset 1856 Oil on canvas 61 × 91.4 cm Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
Autumn in North America 1856 Oil on board 28.58 × 43.18 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum(?)
Cross in the Wilderness 1857 Oil on board 41.3 × 61.5 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid[10]
Sunset in the Berkshire Hills 1857 Oil on canvas Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
View of Cotopaxi 1857 Oil on canvas 62.2 × 92.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
View on the Magdalena River 1857 Oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Niagara 1857 Oil on canvas 106.5 × 229.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Morning in the Tropics c. 1858 Oil on canvas 21 × 35.5 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Twilight, Mount Ktaadn Oil on paper mounted on board Collection of Henry and Sharon Martin
The Heart of the Andes 1859 Oil on canvas 167.9 × 302.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Meteor of 1860 Oil on canvas Private collection
Twilight in the Wilderness 1860 Oil on canvas 101.6 × 162.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Icebergs 1861 Oil on canvas 163.83 × 285.75 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Our Banner in the Sky 1861 Oil on paper Private collection
Oosisoak Oil on canvas Private collection[11]
Cotopaxi (painting) 1862 Oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Setting Sun 1864 Oil on canvas Private collection
Chimborazo 1864 Oil on canvas The Huntington Library, California
Mount Chimborazo 1865 Oil on canvas Olana State Historic Site, New York
Aurora Borealis 1865 Oil on canvas 142.6 × 212.1 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Twilight, Mount Desert Island, Maine 1865 Oil on canvas Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Rainy Season in the Tropics 1866 Oil on canvas Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Pichincha 1867 Oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
View of Cotopaxi 1867 Oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
Vale of St Thomas, Jamaica 1867 Oil on canvas 122.7 × 214.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Niagara Falls, from the American Side 1867 Oil on canvas 101 × 89 in Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives 1870 Oil on canvas 137.8 × 214.3 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Parthenon 1871 Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
View from Olana in the Snow Oil on academy board mounted on Masonite Colby College of Museum of Art, Maine
Figures in an Ecuadorian Landscape 1872 Oil on canvas 53.34 x 91.44 cm Private collection
Passing Shower in the Tropics 1872 Oil on canvas 31 × 51 cm Princeton University Art Museum
Syria by the Sea 1873 Oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Tropical Scenery (South American Landscape) 1873 Oil on canvas 97.3 × 152.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York
Syrian Landscape[12] (also Landscape in Greece) 1873 Oil on panel Private collection
El Khasné, Petra 1874 Oil on canvas 153.7 × 127.6 cm Olana State Historic Site
Autumn 1875 Oil on canvas 39.4 × 61 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid[13]
The Iceberg Oil on canvas 55.9 x 68.6 cm
The Aegean Sea Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) 1877 Oil on canvas 138.1 cm × 213.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Landscape in the Adirondacks 1878 Oil on canvas Private collection
The Monastery of San Pedro 1879 Oil on canvas 118.8 × 183.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art
Springtime in the Levant 1879 Oil on canvas Private collection
Marine—Sunset 1881–82 Oil on canvas Private collection
Al Ayn (also known as The Fountain) 1882 Oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 1883 Oil on canvas Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Chimborazo Volcano 1884 Oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
Moonrise 1889 Oil on canvas Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
The Iceberg 1891 Oil on canvas 71.63 × 99.69 cm Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp 1895 Oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art, Maine

References

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Hankin 2007, p. 11.
  2. Carr 2007, p. 17.
  3. Carr 2007.
  4. Web site: Frederic Edwin Church | Above the Clouds at Sunrise | American .
  5. Web site: Abandoned Skiff. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
  6. Carr 2007, p. 25.
  7. Web site: Brichacek. Joe. Summer in South America. FLAAC Off the Wall. Vassar College. December 17, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20130731120555/http://pages.vassar.edu/fllaceducation/summer-in-south-america. July 31, 2013. April 3, 2012.
  8. http://www.mfah.org/art/detail/cotopaxi/ Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855
  9. Web site: South American Landscape. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
  10. Web site: Cross in the Wilderness. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
  11. Harvey 2002, p. 64.
  12. Carr 2007, p. 56.
  13. Web site: Autumn. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.