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List of paintings 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.Hankin 2007, p. 11. Sketches are excluded—Church made thousands—unless they are in oil and very finished.

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Works

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150pxNiagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls)c. 1844Oil on canvas111.4 × 119.1 cmGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
150pxHooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 16361846Oil on canvas102.24 × 153.35 cmWadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
150pxMoses Viewing the Promised Land1846Oil on academy board25.4 × 31.75 cmPrivate collection
150pxStorm in the Mountains1847Oil on canvas75.5 × 62.8 cmCleveland Museum of Art
150pxJuly SunsetCarr 2007, p. 17. (also July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts{{r|artrenewaljuly}})1847Oil on canvas{{cvt|29|x|40+3/8|in}}Private collectionCarr 2007.
150pxNorth Lake1847Oil on canvas{{cvt|12|x|19|in}}Private collection
150pxTo the Memory of Cole1848Oil on canvas81.3 × 124.5 cmPrivate collection
150pxView in Pittsford, Vermont1848Oil on academy board{{cvt|11|x|16+1/4|in}}Private collection
150pxMorning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from Catskill Mountains1848Oil on canvas45.72 × 60.96 cmAlbany Institute of History and Art, New York
150pxWest Rock, New Haven1849Oil on canvas{{cvt|27+1/8|x|40+1/8|in}}New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
150pxMountain Landscape1849Oil on canvas34.6 × 48.5 cmBrauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, Indiana
150pxAbove the Clouds at Sunrise1849Oil on canvas69.2 × 102.2 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York{{cite web | url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/700235 | title=Frederic Edwin Church | Above the Clouds at Sunrise | American | date=1849 }}
150pxAbandoned Skiff1850Oil on cardboard28 × 43.2 cmThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/church-frederic-edwin/abandoned-skiff|title=Abandoned Skiff|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza}}
150pxTwilight, "Short Arbiter 'Twixt Day and Night" (Sunset)1850Oil on canvas{{cvt|32.25|x|48|in}}Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
150pxFog off Mount Desert1850Oil on board30.48 × 39.37 cmPrivate collection
150pxOtter Creek, Mt. Desert1850Oil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
150pxBeacon, off Mount Desert Island1851Oil on canvas{{cvt|31|x|46|in}}Private collection
150pxNew England Scenery1851Oil on canvasGeorge Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Massachusetts
150pxCamp Fire in the Maine Wilderness1851–59Oil on canvas43.82 × 69.14 cmPrivate collection
150pxThe Wreck1852Oil on canvas76.2 × 116.84 cmThe Parthenon, United States
150pxGrand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy1852Oil on canvas55.4 × 81.12 cmPublic collection
150pxHome by the Lake1852Oil on canvas81.28 × 122.55 cmPublic collection
150pxCoast Scene1852Oil on canvas{{cvt|20|x|30|in}}Private collection
150pxThe Natural Bridge, Virginia1852Oil on canvasUniversity of Virginia Art Museum
150pxAutumnCarr 2007, p. 25. (also Autumn on the Hudson{{r|artrenewalautumn}})1853Oil on canvas{{cvt|20|x|30+1/2|in}}Private collection
150pxMt. Ktaadn (Mt. Katahdin)1853Oil on canvasYale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
150pxSummer in South America{{circa|1853}}Oil on boardFrances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York{{cite web|last1=Brichacek|first1=Joe|title=Summer in South America|url=http://pages.vassar.edu/fllaceducation/summer-in-south-america/|website=FLAAC Off the Wall|publisher=Vassar College|access-date=December 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731120555/http://pages.vassar.edu/fllaceducation/summer-in-south-america|archive-date=July 31, 2013|date=April 3, 2012}}
150pxThe Falls of the Tequendama near Bogota, New Granada1854Oil on canvas162.6 cm x 101.6Cincinnati Art Museum
150pxLa Magdalena aka Scene on the Magdalena1854Oil on canvas71.12 × 106.68 cmPrivate collection
150pxThe Cordilleras: Sunrise1854Oil on canvas72.3 × 109.2 cmPrivate collection
150pxA Country Home1854Oil on canvas115.89 × 161.61 cmSeattle Art Museum, Washington
150pxTamaca Palms1854Oil on canvas68 × 91.4 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
150pxCotopaxi1855Oil on canvas71.12 × 107 cmSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
150pxThe Andes of Ecuador1855Oil on canvas121.9 cm × 194.3 cmReynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
150pxCotopaxi1855Oil on canvas{{cvt|30|x|46.44|in}}Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas[http://www.mfah.org/art/detail/cotopaxi/ Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831201143/http://www.mfah.org/art/detail/cotopaxi/ |date=2012-08-31 }}, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, www.mfah.org
150pxTropical Landscapec. 1855Oil on canvas28 × 41.3 cmThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/church-frederic-edwin/south-american-landscape|title=South American Landscape|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza}}
150pxSouth American Landscape1856Oil on canvas59.5 × 92 cmThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
150pxTwilight (Sunset)1856Oil on canvas{{cvt|16+1/4|x|24+1/4|in}}Albany Institute of History & Art
150pxSunset1856Oil on canvas61 × 91.4 cmMunson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
150pxAutumn in North America1856Oil on board28.58 × 43.18 cmThyssen-Bornemisza Museum(?)
150pxCross in the Wilderness1857Oil on board41.3 × 61.5 cmThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/church-frederic-edwin/cross-wilderness|title=Cross in the Wilderness|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza}}
150pxSunset in the Berkshire Hills1857Oil on canvas{{cvt|28+1/2|x|35|in}}Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
150pxView of Cotopaxi1857Oil on canvas62.2 × 92.7 cmArt Institute of Chicago, Illinois
150pxView on the Magdalena River1857Oil on canvas{{cvt|23+3/4|x|36|in}}Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
150pxNiagara1857Oil on canvas106.5 × 229.9 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
150pxMorning in the Tropicsc. 1858Oil on canvas21 × 35.5 cmWalters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
150pxTwilight, Mount Ktaadn{{circa|1858–60}}Oil on paper mounted on board{{cvt|10+1/2|x|13+5/8|in}}Collection of Henry and Sharon Martin
150pxThe Heart of the Andes1859Oil on canvas167.9 × 302.9 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
150pxThe Meteor of 1860{{circa|1860–61}}Oil on canvas{{cvt|10|x|17+1/2|in}}Private collection
150pxTwilight in the Wilderness1860Oil on canvas101.6 × 162.6 cmCleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
150pxThe Icebergs1861Oil on canvas163.83 × 285.75 cmDallas Museum of Art, Texas
150pxOur Banner in the Sky1861Oil on paper{{cvt|7.5|x|11.25|in}}Private collection
150pxOosisoak{{circa|1861}}Oil on canvas{{cvt|23|x|17|in}}Private collectionHarvey 2002, p. 64.
150pxCotopaxi (painting)1862Oil on canvasDetroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
150pxThe Setting Sun1864Oil on canvas{{cvt|9+1/2|x|14|in}}Private collection
150pxChimborazo1864Oil on canvas{{cvt|48|x|84|in}}The Huntington Library, California
150pxMount Chimborazo1865Oil on canvas{{cvt|7+1/8|x|12+3/8|in}}Olana State Historic Site, New York
150pxAurora Borealis1865Oil on canvas142.6 × 212.1 cmSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
150pxTwilight, Mount Desert Island, Maine1865Oil on canvas{{cvt|31+5/16|x|48+7/16|in}}Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
150pxRainy Season in the Tropics1866Oil on canvas{{cvt|56.25|x|84.25|in}}Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
150pxPichincha1867Oil on canvasPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
150pxView of Cotopaxi1867Oil on canvasYale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
150pxVale of St Thomas, Jamaica1867Oil on canvas122.7 × 214.9 cmWadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
150pxNiagara Falls, from the American Side1867Oil on canvas101 × 89 inScottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
150pxJerusalem from the Mount of Olives1870Oil on canvas137.8 × 214.3 cmNelson-Atkins Museum of Art
150pxThe Parthenon1871Oil on canvas{{cvt|44+1/2|x|72+5/8|in}}Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York{{r|antiquesparthenon}}
150pxView from Olana in the Snow{{circa|1870–75}}Oil on academy board mounted on Masonite{{cvt|13+1/4|x|21|in}}Colby College of Museum of Art, Maine
150pxFigures in an Ecuadorian Landscape1872Oil on canvas53.34 x 91.44 cmPrivate collection
150pxPassing Shower in the Tropics1872Oil on canvas31 × 51 cmPrinceton University Art Museum
150pxSyria by the Sea1873Oil on canvas{{cvt|56|x|85|in}}Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
150pxTropical Scenery (South American Landscape)1873Oil on canvas97.3 × 152.2 cmBrooklyn Museum, New York
150pxSyrian LandscapeCarr 2007, p. 56. (also Landscape in Greece{{r|artrenewalgreece}})1873Oil on panel{{cvt|15+1/2|x|22+1/2|in}}Private collection
150pxEl Khasné, Petra1874Oil on canvas153.7 × 127.6 cmOlana State Historic Site
150pxAutumn1875Oil on canvas39.4 × 61 cmThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/church-frederic-edwin/autumn|title=Autumn|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza}}
150pxThe Iceberg{{circa|1875}}Oil on canvas55.9 x 68.6 cmTerra Foundation for American Art
150pxThe Aegean Sea{{circa|1877}}Oil on canvas{{cvt|54|x|63+1/4|in}}Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
150pxEl Rio de Luz (The River of Light)1877Oil on canvas138.1 cm × 213.7 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
150pxLandscape in the Adirondacks1878Oil on canvas{{cvt|8+1/2|x|13|in}}Private collection
150pxThe Monastery of San Pedro1879Oil on canvas118.8 × 183.2 cmCleveland Museum of Art
150pxSpringtime in the Levant1879Oil on canvas{{cvt|31|x|48|in}}Private collection
150pxMarine—Sunset1881–82Oil on canvas{{cvt|30+1/2|x|42|in}}Private collection
150pxAl Ayn (also known as The Fountain)1882Oil on canvasMead Art Museum, Massachusetts
150pxSierra Nevada de Santa Marta1883Oil on canvas{{cvt|40+1/16|x|60+1/8|in}}Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
150pxChimborazo Volcano1884Oil on canvasYale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
150pxMoonrise1889Oil on canvasSanta Barbara Museum of Art, California
150pxThe Iceberg1891Oil on canvas71.63 × 99.69 cmCarnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
150pxMount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp1895Oil on canvas{{cvt|26+1/2|x|42+1/4|in}}Portland Museum of Art, Maine

References

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{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.com/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=28432|title=Frederic Edwin Church :: July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts|date=August 3, 2005|work=Art Renewal Center|access-date=April 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928022748/http://www.artrenewal.com/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=28432|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.com/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=25045|title=Frederic Edwin Church :: Autumn on the Hudson|date=May 20, 2005|work=Art Renewal Center|access-date=April 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928022800/http://www.artrenewal.com/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=25045|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=855|title=The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church|last=Gerdts|first=William|year=2007|work=Antiques & Fine Art|access-date=April 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161809/http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=855|url-status=live|archive-date=July 27, 2011}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.artrenewal.com/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=25057&size=large|title=Frederic Edwin Church :: Landscape in Greece|date=May 20, 2005|work=Art Renewal Center|access-date=April 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928022820/http://www.artrenewal.com/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=25057&size=large|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/de-young-museum/artwork/rainy-season-in-the-tropics-frederic-edwin-church/718578/details/ |title=Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866 |work=Google Art Project|access-date=25 March 2013}}

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= Bibliography =

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  • {{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Gerald L. |editor1-first=Stephen Robert |editor1-last=Frankel |title=Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes |year=2007 |publisher=Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company |location=New York |pages=17–63 |isbn=978-0-9741621-7-1}}
  • {{cite book |last=Hankin | first=Lisa Bush |editor-first=Gerald L | editor-last=Carr |others=Stephen Robert Frankel (editor) |title=Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes |location=New York |publisher=Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company |year=2007 |pages=11–13 |chapter=Church: A Biographical Sketch |isbn=978-0-9741621-7-1}}
  • {{cite book|last=Harvey|first=Eleanor Jones|others=Gerald L. Carr (contributions)|title=The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece|year=2002|publisher=Dallas Museum of Art|location=New Haven|isbn=0-300-09536-8|page=64}}

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