View of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church
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View of Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church · 1857

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Walter Wright, Chicago, from 1857 to 1876; by descent to Anne E. Webster, from 1876 to 1894; by descent to Lewis Dana Webster, from 1894 to 1908; by descent to Ida Hamlin Webster, from 1908 to 1912; by descent to Mary Jennette Hamlin, from 1912 to 1919; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1919.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Burch’s Building, Chicago Exhibition of Fine Arts First Exhibition of Statuary, Paintings, etc, 1859, cat. 180, as “Landscape.”
  • Chicago, McVicker’s Theatre Building, Chicago Exhibition of the Fine Arts of the Chicago Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1863, cat. 200, as “South America.”
  • Oakenwald School, Chicago, IL, Paintings and Water Colors, Dec. 6, 1935.
  • Art Institute of Chicago and New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, The Hudson River School, 1945, cat. 45.
  • New London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Eighty Eminent Painters of Connecticut, 1947, cat. 90.
  • Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13 – Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 3. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951.
  • IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 1.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
  • Newark, University of Delaware and Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, American Painting 1857–1869, Jan. 10–Feb. 18, 1962, cat. 14.
  • Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, Mar. 29–July 14, 1985, cat. 6.
  • Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church, Oct. 8, 1989–Jan. 28, 1990, cat. 29.
  • Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, <em>Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100–nen</em> [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.

Literature

Published references

  • Chicago Press and Tribune, June 1, 1859, 2.
  • “The Art Exhibition,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 27, 1863, 2.
  • “The Art Exhibition of the Sanitary Fair: First Alcove,” Chicago Daily Journal, Oct. 29, 1863, 4.
  • George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 56, cat. 547, as <em>South America</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952</a>.
  • The Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 14 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 28.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 75, no cat. no, as <em>South America</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578</a>.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 75, no cat. no, as <em>South America</em>.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 130, cat. 547, as <em>South America</em>, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60</a>.
  • Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 45 (Sept. 1951), 45 (ill.).
  • “Art in Chicago: Americans Reinstalled,” Art Digest (Oct. 1951), ill.
  • David C. Huntington, Frederic Edwin Church, 1826–1900: Painter of the Adamic New World Myth (Ph.D. Diss., Yale University, 1960), 107.
  • David Hanks, “American Paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Nov. 1973, 902.

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