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Drawing, Schoodic Peninsula from Mount Desert at Sunrise
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1850–55 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
On his 1850 trip to Mount Desert Island, Church spent time on the island’s eastern side, around Schooner Head, which looks out across Frenchman’s Bay toward the Schoodic Peninsula. This dramatic sunrise with red and pink clouds layered in horizontal bands against a golden, sun-tinged sky prepared the artist to develop a similar cloud-filled sunrise in the larger canvas Beacon off Mount Desert Island, which was exhibited to critical acclaim at the National Academy of Design in 1852.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
22.7 x 35.5 cm (8 15/16 x 14 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Schoodic Peninsula from Mount Desert at Sunrise; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil on paperboard; 22.7 x 35.5 cm (8 15/16 x 14 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-332
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
