Frederic Edwin ChurchUSA, 1826–1900Cotopaxi
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Frederic Church was an ambitious painter and enthusiastic amateur scientist. He had read Darwin's books and Alexander von Humboldt's descriptions of Cotopaxi,"the most dreadful volcano...its explosions most frequent and disastrous."The fabled Ecuadorian mountain provided both a poetic symbol of God's creation and an exciting window into the planet's natural history. Geology was a new science in the nineteenth century, and Church was among those who believed that volcanoes offered clues to the age and origins of the earth.On his first visit to Ecuador, the artist waited an entire day near the hacienda pictured here, hoping that the clouds would part to reveal the peak. American critics complained that Church's paintings of the volcano did not capture the soft atmospheric haze that they were used to seeing in landscapes. Those who had never traveled to the high country of the Andes did not understand that in the thin, clear air, Cotopaxi's icy flanks gleamed just as Church had painted them.
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Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
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- 1965.12
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I Frederic Edwin Churchs liv
Hela livet1853
First journey to South America
Inspired by Alexander von Humboldt’s “Personal Narrative” (1852), which challenged artists to portray the “physiognomy” of the Andes, Church set off in his footsteps with the businessman Cyrus West Field, who paid for the voyage hoping Church’s paintings would lure investors to his South American ventures. On his two journeys (1853 and 1857) Church stayed mostly in Quito, visited the volcanoes and cities of Colombia and Ecuador and crossed the Isthmus of Panama.
1854–1856
Canada, New England and Mount Desert Island
Church travelled in Canada and New England; like Cole, he was among the first city dwellers to summer on Mount Desert Island in Maine, now Acadia National Park.
1857
Second South American journey, with Louis Rémy Mignot
Church returned to South America with the painter Louis Rémy Mignot and added to his sketches; the two journeys produced “The Andes of Ecuador”, “Cayambe”, “The Heart of the Andes” and “Cotopaxi”.
