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Church, Frederic Edwin,
Landscape -- Antarctica
Landscape -- Phenomenon
Waterscape -- Boat
Architecture -- Boat
Painting
Aurora Borealis, (painting).
Artist:
Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900, painter.
Title:
Aurora Borealis, (painting).
Dates:
1865.
Medium:
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions:
56 1/8 x 83 1/2 in. (142.6 x 212.1 cm).
Inscription:
(Lower left:) FC 65 signed
Subject:
Landscape -- Antarctica
Landscape -- Phenomenon -- Aurora
Waterscape -- Boat
Architecture -- Boat -- Sailing Ship
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th & G Streets, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1911.4.1
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Blodgett, William T., New York, New York 1865.
Blodgett, William T., estate of, New York, New York until April 27, 1876.
Chickering Hall, Sale (April 27, 1876), lot 63
Gift of Blodgett, Eleanor, 1876-1911.
References:
Owner, 1976: Registration Records.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.
"Frederic Edwin Church," Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1966.
"American painters of the Arctic: [exhibition]," Amherst, MA: Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College, 1975.
"Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin," Hudson, NY: Olana Partnership and Cornell University Press, 2012, pg. 59.
Kloss, William, "Treasures from the National Museum of American Art," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pg. 62 and 197.
Illustration:
Image on file.
"Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin," Hudson, NY: Olana Partnership and Cornell University Press, 2012, pg. 59.
Kloss, William, "Treasures from the National Museum of American Art," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pg. 63.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP
08580723
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