COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1919.753
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Church, Frederic Edwin
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places:
American; 1826-1900 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT:
Frederic Edwin Church
Title:
View of Cotopaxi
Title Type:
preferred
View:
full view
Creation Date:
1857
Creation Start Date:
1857
Creation End Date:
1857
Materials and Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Creation Place:
North and Central America,North America,United States
Dimensions:
24 1/2 x 36 1/2 in. (62.2 x 92.7 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1919.753
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jennette Hamlin in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dana Webster.
Inscriptions:
Signed, lower right: "F. E. Church '57"
Context:
Frederic Edwin Church produced at least ten finished paintings of the Ecuadorian volcano, Cotopaxi. Painted just before Church's second journey to Latin America, View of Cotopaxi is a symbolically layered landscape that incorporates the scientific, religious, and political themes that preoccupied the artist. Church ascribed to a religious view of creation that looked to nature and science for evidence of God's role as Creator. The lush rain forests of Latin America, likened to the Garden of Eden, were linked to creation and paradise, and, because of its creative and destructive force, the volcano was understood in terms of divine power.
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E28012.TIF
