List of works by Frederic Edwin Church

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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.

Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America.

Works

Name	Year	Technique	Dimensions	Current Location
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636	1846	Oil on canvas	40.25 × 60.37 in. (102.24 × 153.35 cm.)	Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut
Moses Viewing the Promised Land	1846	Oil on academy board	12 ½ × 10 in. (31.75 × 25.4 cm.)	Private collection
Storm in the Mountains	1847	Oil on canvas	75.5 x 62.8 cm (29 11/16 x 24 11/16 in.)	Cleveland Museum of Art
July Sunset^[2](also July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts^[3])	1847	Oil on canvas	29 × 40 ⅜ in.	Private collection^[4]
North Lake	1847	Oil on canvas	12 × 19 in.	Private collection^[4]
To the Memory of Cole	1848	Oil on canvas	32 × 49 in. (81.3 × 124.5 cm)	Private collection
View in Pittsford, Vermont	1848	Oil on academy board	11 × 16 ¼ in.	Private collection^[4]
Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from Catskill Mountains	1848	Oil on canvas	24 × 18 in. (60.96 × 45.72 cm.)	Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
West Rock, New Haven	1849	Oil on canvas	27 ⅛ × 40 ⅛ in.	New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut^[4]
Above the Clouds at Sunrise	1849	Oil on canvas	27 ¼ × 40 ¼ in. (69.22 × 102.24 cm.)	Public collection
The Old Boat(also known as The Abandoned Skiff)	1850	Oil on canvas		Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain
Fog off Mount Desert	1850	Oil on board	15 ½ × 12 in. (39.37 × 30.48 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	31 × 46 in.	Private collection^[4]
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	25 ¼ × 17 ¼ in. (69.14 × 43.82 cm.)	Private collection
The Wreck	1852	Oil on canvas	46 × 30 in. (116.84 × 76.2 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	48 × 32 in. (122.55 × 81.28 cm.)	Public collection
Coast Scene	1852	Oil on canvas	20 × 30 in.	Private collection^[4]
The Natural Bridge, Virginia	1852	Oil on canvas		University of Virginia Art Museum
Autumn^[5](also Autumn on the Hudson^[6])	1853	Oil on canvas	20 × 30 ½ in.	Private collection^[4]
Mt. Ktaadn (Mt. Katahdin)	1853	Oil on canvas		Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
Summer in South America	c. 1853	Oil on board		Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York^[7]
La Magdalena aka Scene on the Magdalena	1854	Oil on canvas	42 × 28 in. (106.68 × 71.12 cm.)	Private collection
The Cordilleras: Sunrise	1854	Oil on canvas	72.3 x 109.2 cm	Private collection
A Country Home	1854	Oil on canvas	161.61 × 115.89 cm.	Seattle Art Museum, Washington.
Tamaca Palms	1854	Oil on canvas	26 ¾ × 35 15/16 in. (68 × 91.4 cm.)	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Cotopaxi	1855	Oil on canvas	42.13 × 28 in. (107 × 71.12 cm.)	Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Andes of Ecuador	1855	Oil on canvas		Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Cotopaxi	1855	Oil on canvas	30 × 46.44 in.	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas^[4]^[8]
Twilight (Sunset)	1856	Oil on canvas	16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.	Albany Institute of History & Art
Autumn in North America	1856	Oil on board	17 × 11 ¼ in. (43.18 × 28.58 cm.)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain)
Cross in the Wilderness	1857	Oil on board	24 ¼ × 16.26 in. (61.6 × 41.3 cm.)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain)
View of Cotopaxi	1857	Oil on canvas	24 ½ × 36 ½ in. (62.2 × 92.7 cm.)	Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
View on the Magdalena River	1857	Oil on canvas	23 ¾ × 36 in.	Private collection^[4]
Niagara	1857	Oil on canvas	40 x 90 ½ in. (106.5 x 229.9 cm.)	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Morning in the Tropics	ca. 1858	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	8.25 x 14 in. (21 x 35.5 cm)	Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Twilight, Mount Ktaadn	c. 1858–60	Oil on paper mounted on board	10 ½ × 13 ⅝ in.	Collection of Henry and Sharon Martin^[4]
The Heart of the Andes	1859	Oil on canvas	167.9 × 302.9 cm.	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Meteor of 1860	c. 1860–61	Oil on canvas	10 × 17 ½ in.	Private collection^[4]
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	7.5 × 11.25 in.	Private collection
Oosisoak	c. 1861	Oil on canvas	23 × 17 in.	Private collection^[9]
Cotopaxi	1862	Oil on canvas		Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Setting Sun	1864	Oil on canvas	9 ½ × 14 in.	Private collection^[4]
Chimborazo	1864	Oil on canvas	48 × 84 in.	The Huntington Library, California
Mount Chimborazo	1865	Oil on canvas	7 ⅛ × 12 ⅜ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York^[4]
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	31 5/16 x 48 7/16 in.	Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Rainy Season in the Tropics	1866	Oil on canvas	56.25 × 84.25 in.	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California^[10]
Pichincha	1867	Oil on canvas		Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania^[4]
View of Cotopaxi	1867	Oil on canvas		Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
Vale of St Thomas, Jamaica	1867	Oil on canvas	48 ⁵⁄₁₆ × 84 ⅝ in. (122.7 × 214.9 cm)	Wadsworth Atheneum
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	54 ¼ × 84 ⅜ in. (137.8 × 214.3 cm)	Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Parthenon	1871	Oil on canvas	44 ½ × 72 ⅝ in.	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[11]
Tropical Scenery (South American Landscape)	1873	Oil on canvas	38.31 × 59.93 in. (97.3 × 152.2 cm.)	Brooklyn Museum, New York^[4]
View from Olana in the Snow	c. 1870–75	Oil on academy board mounted on Masonite	13 ¼ × 21 in.	Colby College of Museum of Art, Maine^[4]
Figures in an Ecuadorian Landscape	1872	Oil on canvas	36 × 21 in. (91.44 × 53.34 cm.)	Private collection
Syria by the Sea	1873	Oil on canvas	56 x 85 in.	Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Syrian Landscape^[12](also Landscape in Greece^[13])	1873	Oil on panel	15 ½ × 22 ½ in.	Private collection^[4]
El Khasné, Petra	1874	Oil on canvas	60 ½ × 50 ¼ in. (153.7 × 127.6 cm)	Olana State Historic Site
Autumn	1875	Oil on canvas	24.02 × 15.51 in. (61 × 39.4 cm.)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain)
The Aegean Sea	c. 1877	Oil on canvas	54 × 63 ¼ in.	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[4]
El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)	1877	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Landscape in the Adirondacks	1878	Oil on canvas	8 ½ × 13 in.	Private collection^[4]
The Monastery of San Pedro	1879	Oil on canvas	118.8 x 183.2 cm	Cleveland Museum of Art
Springtime in the Levant	1879	Oil on canvas	31 × 48 in.	Private collection^[4]
Marine—Sunset	1881–82	Oil on canvas	30 ½ × 42 in.	Private collection^[4]
Al Ayn(also known as The Fountain)	1882	Oil on canvas		Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta	1883	Oil on canvas	40 1/16 x 60 1/8"	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	H: 28 1/5 x W: 39 1/4 x D: 5 in. (71.63 x 99.69 x 12.7 cm)	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp	1895	Oil on canvas	26 ½ × 42 ¼ in.	Portland Museum of Art, Maine

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References

↑ Hankin 2007, p. 11.
↑ Carr 2007, p. 17.
↑ "Frederic Edwin Church :: July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts". Art Renewal Center. August 3, 2005. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Carr 2007.
↑ Carr 2007, p. 25.
↑ "Frederic Edwin Church :: Autumn on the Hudson". Art Renewal Center. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
↑ Brichacek, Joe (April 3, 2012). "Summer in South America". FLAAC Off the Wall. Vassar College. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
↑ Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855 Archived 2012-08-31 at the Wayback Machine ., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, www.mfah.org
↑ Harvey 2002, p. 64.
↑ "Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866". Google Art Project. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
↑ Gerdts, William (2007). "The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church". Antiques & Fine Art. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
↑ Carr 2007, p. 56.
↑ "Frederic Edwin Church :: Landscape in Greece". Art Renewal Center. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 2, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2011.

Bibliography

Carr, Gerald, L. (2007). Frankel, Stephen Robert, ed. Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes. New York: Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company. pp. 17–63. ISBN 978-0-9741621-7-1.
Hankin, Lisa Bush (2007). "Church: A Biographical Sketch". In Carr, Gerald L. Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes. Stephen Robert Frankel (editor). New York: Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company. pp. 11–13. ISBN 978-0-9741621-7-1.
Harvey, Eleanor Jones (2002). The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece. Gerald L. Carr (contributions). New Haven: Dallas Museum of Art. p. 64. ISBN 0-300-09536-8.

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[Hankin11-1] Hankin 2007, p. 11.

[2] Carr 2007, p. 17.

[artrenewaljuly-3] "Frederic Edwin Church :: July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts". Art Renewal Center. August 3, 2005. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.

[Carr-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Carr 2007.

[5] Carr 2007, p. 25.

[artrenewalautumn-6] "Frederic Edwin Church :: Autumn on the Hudson". Art Renewal Center. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.

[summer_in_south_america-7] Brichacek, Joe (April 3, 2012). "Summer in South America". FLAAC Off the Wall. Vassar College. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2014.

[mfah-8] Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855 Archived 2012-08-31 at the Wayback Machine ., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, www.mfah.org

[9] Harvey 2002, p. 64.

[googleartrainy-10] "Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866". Google Art Project. Retrieved 25 March 2013.

[antiquesparthenon-11] Gerdts, William (2007). "The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church". Antiques & Fine Art. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.

[12] Carr 2007, p. 56.

[artrenewalgreece-13] "Frederic Edwin Church :: Landscape in Greece". Art Renewal Center. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 2, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2011.

v t e Frederic Edwin Church
Paintings	List of works The Andes of Ecuador (1855) Niagara (1857) The Heart of the Andes (1859) Twilight in the Wilderness (1860) The Icebergs (1861) Cotopaxi (1862) Chimborazo (1864) Aurora Borealis (1865) Niagara Falls, from the American Side (1867) Arch of Titus (1871) The Parthenon (1871) El Khasné, Petra (1874) The Aegean Sea (c. 1877) El Rio de Luz (1877)
Related	Hudson River School Luminism (American art style) Olana State Historic Site

List of works by Frederic Edwin Church

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