b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of ArtĪMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. Seen by large numbersof Americans in a touring exhibition organized by Church himself, this picture was marketed as essentially "American"-a comforting, patriotic image of the American wilderness. The panoramic splendor created by brilliant clouds floating above a tranquil landscape also suggests the divine authority of "manifest destiny," the idea that Americans of European stock had a right to the continent. This gorgeous oil on canvas painting, titled Twilight in the Wilderness, is by the American Hudson River School artist, Frederic Edwin Church, from 1860. The dramatic light electrifying the entire composition is based on sunsets he witnessed from the window of his New York City studio.Perhaps the artist intended twilight to suggest the end of a cosmic cycle-a meaning that coincides with the feeling that the Civil Was (imminent in 1860 when this picture was made) would change American civilization forever. Church created it by combining several different sketches made in Maine and New York. Marlatt FundĬontext: Although this is a convincing landscape, it does not depict a specific place. CHURCH / -60-"ĪMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of ArtĬredit Line: Mr. early light with a pinch of twilights last gleaming comes to mind. Revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at Name: Church, Frederic EdwinĬreator Nationality: North American American Another contender is Frederic Edwin Churchs 1861 surreal masterwork Our. Born in Hartford in 1826, he was the privileged son of Joseph Church, a jeweler and banker of that city, who interceded with Connecticut scion and collector Daniel Wadsworth to persuade the landscape painter Thomas Cole to accept his son as a pupil. Visit for more information on the collection, click on the link below the Frederic Edwin Church was perhaps the best-known representative of the Hudson River School of landscape painting as well as one its most traveled. Your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minuteĭetails of the images. Monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from Gain access to this incredible resource through either a Textiles, decorative art, books and manuscripts. Watercolors, sculptures, costumes, jewelry, furniture, prints, photographs,
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