Frederic Edwin Church, 1860 - Twilight in the Wilderness - fine art print

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The 19th century painting named Twilight in the Wilderness was made by the male artist Frederic Edwin Church in 1860. The over 160 years old original version had the following size: Framed: 124 x 185 x 13 cm (48 13/16 x 72 13/16 x 5 1/8 in); Unframed: 101,6 x 162,6 cm (40 x 64 in). Oil on canvas was used by the North American artist as the technique for the painting. The original painting has the following text as inscrption: signed and dated lower right: "F. E. CHURCH / -60-". This work of art is part of the art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, which is one of the leading museums worldwide that builds, preserves, studies, and shares its outstanding collections of art from all periods and parts of the world, generating new scholarship and understanding, while serving as a social and intellectual hub for its community. With courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art (public domain license). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund. Moreover, alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 3 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% longer than the width. Frederic Edwin Church was a male painter, art collector, landscape painter, traveller, whose artistic style can mainly be assigned to Romanticism. The artist lived for 74 years, born in the year 1826 in Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, United States and passed away in 1900.

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In his New York studio, Church painted this spectacular view of a blazing sunset over wilderness near Mount Katahdin in Maine, which he had sketched during a visit nearly two years earlier. Although Church often extolled the grandeur of pristine American landscape in his work, this painting appears to have additional overtones. Created on the eve of the Civil War, the painting's subject can be interpreted as symbolically evoking the coming conflagration. Church's considerable technical skills and clever showmanship contributed to his fame as the premier artist of his generation. Rather than debut this painting in an annual exhibition with works by other artists as was the custom, Church instead exhibited it by itself at a prestigious art gallery. Coaxed by advance publicity and highly favorable press reviews, several hundred spectators flocked to admire it during its seven-week run.

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