Storm in the Mountains
1847
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
American Painting and Sculpture
Storm in the Mountains, 1847. Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900). Oil on canvas; framed: 98.7 x 86.4 x 9.2 cm (38 7/8 x 34 x 3 5/8 in.); unframed: 75.5 x 62.8 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.); former: 94.5 x 81.5 x 9 cm (37 3/16 x 32 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of various donors by exchange and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1969.52 Dominating this composition is a lightning-blasted tree embodying nature's awe-inspiring power and endless cycle of life and death. A popular motif because of these associations, the blasted tree was favored by many landscape painters like Church, who prominently featured it here. Church's spectacular home and studio is preserved as a New York State Historical Site.
- Maker/Artist
- Church, Frederic Edwin
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 98.7 x 86.4 x 9.2 cm (38 7/8 x 34 x 3 5/8 in.); Unframed: 75.5 x 62.8 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.); Former: 94.5 x 81.5 x 9 cm (37 3/16 x 32 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed in center on tree: "F. CHURCH. 1847"
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1969.52
- Credit Line
- Gift of various donors by exchange and Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1969, Visions of Landscape: East and West, New York, American Art Union 1847, no. 120; listed as the property of E. G. Merick of Clayton, NY in Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union Exhibition Record 1816-1852, (New York, 1953), p. 70.<br>Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, A Nation’s Legacy: 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections; (19 January - 15 March 1992), traveled to Tokyo, Isetan Museum (9 April - 5 May 1992), Yamaguchi, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art (12 May- 21 June 1992), Fukushima, the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art (27 June - 2 August 1992), Takamatsu, the Takamatsu City Museum of Art (7 August- 6 September 1992) and Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda (23 September- 5 October 1992); cat. no. 4, repr. p. 29, p. 174.<br>Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, The Early Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church (9 March - 29 April 1984); p. 43, 86-7. illus. p. 87 as cat. 4; Blasted Tree (Storm in the Mountains).<br>Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church (8 October 1989- 18 March 1990), p. 36-7, 40, cat. no. 2.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 206 American Landscape
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