List of works by Frederic Edwin Church

"Frederic E. Church", portrait by Mathew Brady.

This is a list of works by Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900), an American landscape painter, who was part of the Hudson River School movement. Church's paintings were inspired by his travels, including Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North America.^[1]

Works

Painting	Name	Year	Technique	Dimensions	Current Location
	Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636	1846	Oil on canvas	40.25 × 60.37 in. (102.24 × 153.35 cm.)	Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut
	Moses Viewing the Promised Land	1846	Oil on academy board	12 ½ × 10 in. (31.75 × 25.4 cm.)	Private collection
	July Sunset[2] (also July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts[3])	1847	Oil on canvas	29 × 40 ⅜ in.	Private collection[4]
	North Lake	1847	Oil on canvas	12 × 19 in.	Private collection[4]
	Study for View near Stockbridge, Massachusetts	1847	Oil on board	7 ½ × 11 in.	Private collection[4]
	Sunrise	c. 1847	Oil on paper	8 ½ × 14 ⅜ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	View in Pittsford, Vermont	1848	Oil on academy board	11 × 16 ¼ in.	Private collection[4]
	Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from Catskill Mountains	1848	Oil on canvas	24 × 18 in. (60.96 × 45.72 cm.)	Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
	West Rock, New Haven	1849	Oil on canvas	27 ⅛ × 40 ⅛ in.	New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut[4]
	Above the Clouds at Sunrise	1849	Oil on canvas	27 ¼ × 40 ¼ in. (69.22 × 102.24 cm.)	Public collection
	The Old Boat (also known as The Abandoned Skiff)	1850	Oil on canvas		Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain
	Fog off Mount Desert	1850	Oil on board	15 ½ × 12 in. (39.37 × 30.48 cm.)	Private collection
	Otter Creek, Mt. Desert	1850	Oil on canvas		Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
	Beacon, off Mount Desert Island	1851	Oil on canvas	31 × 46 in.	Private collection[4]
	New England Scenery	1851	Oil on canvas		George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Massachusetts
	Camp Fire in the Maine Wilderness	1851–59	Oil on canvas	25 ¼ × 17 ¼ in. (69.14 × 43.82 cm.)	Private collection
	The Wreck	1852	Oil on canvas	46 × 30 in. (116.84 × 76.2 cm.)	The Parthenon, United States
	Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy	1852	Oil on canvas	55.4 × 81.12 cm.	Public collection
	Home by the Lake	1852	Oil on canvas	48 × 32 in. (122.55 × 81.28 cm.)	Public collection
	Coast Scene	1852	Oil on canvas	20 × 30 in.	Private collection[4]
	Figures in a New England Landscape	1852	Oil on canvas	26 × 18 in. (66.04 × 45.72 cm.)	Private collection
	The Natural Bridge, Virginia	1852	Oil on canvas		University of Virginia Art Museum
	Autumn[5] (also Autumn on the Hudson[6])	1853	Oil on canvas	20 × 30 ½ in.	Private collection[4]
	Mt. Ktaadn (Mt. Katahdin)	1853	Oil on canvas		Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
	Summer in South America	c. 1853	Oil on board		Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York[7]
	Sunset on Catskill Lake	1854	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	9.93 × 15 ¾ in.	Private collection[4]
	La Magdalena aka Scene on the Magdalena	1854	Oil on canvas	42 × 28 in. (106.68 × 71.12 cm.)	Private collection
	A Country Home	1854	Oil on canvas	161.61 × 115.89 cm.	Seattle Art Museum, Washington. HQ Image.
	Sunset, Bar Harbor	1854	Oil on paper mounted on cavas	10 ⅛ × 17 ¼ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	Tamaca Palms	1854	Oil on canvas	26 ¾ × 35 15/16 in. (68 × 91.4 cm.)	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
	Cotopaxi	1855	Oil on canvas	42.13 × 28 in. (107 × 71.12 cm.)	Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
	The Andes of Ecuador	1855	Oil on canvas		Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC
	Cotopaxi	1855	Oil on canvas	30 × 46.44 in.	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas[4][8]
	Autumn in North America	1856	Oil on board	17 × 11 ¼ in. (43.18 × 28.58 cm.)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain)
	Cross in the Wilderness	1857	Oil on board	24 ¼ × 16.26 in. (61.6 × 41.3 cm.)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain)
	View of Cotopaxi	1857	Oil on canvas	24 ½ × 36 ½ in. (62.2 × 92.7 cm.)	Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
	View on the Magdalena River	1857	Oil on canvas	23 ¾ × 36 in.	Private collection[4]
	Horseshoe Falls, Niagara	1857	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	11 ½ × 35 ⅝ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	Niagara	1857	Oil on canvas	40 x 90 ½ in. (106.5 x 229.9 cm.)	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
	Study for "Under Niagara"	1858	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	11 ¾ × 17 ½ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	Morning in the Tropics	ca. 1858	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	8.25 x 14 in. (21 x 35.5 cm)	Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
	Twilight, Mount Ktaadn	c. 1858–60	Oil on paper mounted on board	10 ½ × 13 ⅝ in.	Collection of Henry and Sharon Martin[4]
	Autumn Shower	1859	Oil on paper	11 ¾ × 6 ½ in. (29.85 × 16.51 cm.)	Private collection
	The Heart of the Andes	1859	Oil on canvas	167.9 × 302.9 cm.	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Icebergs and Wreck in Sunset	1860	Oil on paperboard mounted on canvas	8 ¼ × 12 ¼ in.	Private collection[4]
	The Meteor of 1860	c. 1860–61	Oil on canvas	10 × 17 ½ in.	Private collection[4]
	Twilight Wilderness	1860	Oil on canvas	101.6 × 162.6 cm.	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
	Oil Study of Cotopaxi	1861	Oil on canvas	7 ½ × 12 in.	Private collection[4]
	The Icebergs	1861	Oil on canvas	163.83 × 285.75 cm.	Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
	Our Banner in the Sky	1861	Oil on paper	7.5 × 11.25 in.	Private collection
	Oosisoak	c. 1861	Oil on canvas	23 × 17 in.	Private collection[9]
	Study of Cotopaxi	c. 1862	Pencil and Chinese white on paper	5 ½ × 9 ¼ in.	Collection of Fayez Sarofim[4]
	Cotopaxi	1862	Oil on canvas		Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
	The Setting Sun	1864	Oil on canvas	9 ½ × 14 in.	Private collection[4]
	Chimborazo	1864	Oil on canvas	48 × 84 in.	The Huntington Library, California
	Mount Chimborazo	1865	Oil on canvas	7 ⅛ × 12 ⅜ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	Eruption at Cotopaxi	c. 1865	Oil on canvas	9.56 × 17.06 in.	Collection of Fayez Sarofim[4]
	Aurora Borealis	1865	Oil on canvas	142.6 × 212.1 cm.	Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
	Rainy Season in the Tropics	1866	Oil on canvas	56.25 × 84.25 in.	Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California[10]
	Pichincha	1867	Oil on canvasNiagara Falls, from the American Side	Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania[4]
	View of Cotopaxi	1867	Oil on canvas		Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
	Niagara Falls, from the American Side	1867	Oil on canvas	101 × 89 in	Scottish National Gallery, Edinurgh
	The Erechtheum	c. 1869–70	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	13 × 12 in.	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts[11]
	Study for "The Parthenon"	c. 1869–70	Oil on paper mounted on canvas	13 × 20 in.	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts[12]
	The Parthenon	1871	Oil on canvas	44 ½ × 72 ⅝ in.	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[13]
	Tropical Scenery (South American Landscape)	1873	Oil on canvas	38.31 × 59.93 in. (97.3 × 152.2 cm.)	Brooklyn Museum, New York[4]
	Sunset on July 26, 1870	1870	Oil on paper mounted on artist's board	8 ¼ × 13 in.	Private collection[4]
	Sunset & Catskills from Church Hill	c. 1870–72	Oil on paperboard	10 ⅜ × 13 ⅞ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	View from Olana in the Snow	c. 1870–75	Oil on academy board mounted on Masonite	13 ¼ × 21 in.	Colby College of Museum of Art, Maine[4]
	Figures in an Ecuadorian Landscape	1872	Oil on canvas	36 × 21 in. (91.44 × 53.34 cm.)	Private collection
	Clouds over Olana	1872	Oil on paper	8 ⅝ × 12 ⅛ in.	Olana State Historic Site, New York[4]
	Syria by the Sea	1873	Oil on canvas	56 x 85 in.	Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
	Syrian Landscape[14] (also Landscape in Greece[15])	1873	Oil on panel	15 ½ × 22 ½ in.	Private collection[4]
	Autumn	1875	Oil on canvas	24.02 × 15.51 in. (61 × 39.4 cm.)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Madrid, Spain)
	Study	1874	Oil on paper laid down on board	8 × 10 in.	Private collection[4]
	The Aegean Sea	c. 1877	Oil on canvas	54 × 63 ¼ in.	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[4]
	El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)	1877	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
	Landscape in the Adirondacks	1878	Oil on canvas	8 ½ × 13 in.	Private collection[4]
	Springtime in the Levant	1879	Oil on canvas	31 × 48 in.	Private collection[4]
	Marine—Sunset	1881–82	Oil on canvas	30 ½ × 42 in.	Private collection[4]
	Al Ayn (also known as The Fountain)	1882	Oil on canvas		Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts
	Chimborazo Volcano	1884	Oil on canvas		Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
	Moonrise	1889	Oil on canvas		Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
	The Iceberg	1891	Oil on canvas	H: 28 1/5 x W: 39 1/4 x D: 5 in. (71.63 x 99.69 x 12.7 cm)	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
	Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp	1895	Oil on canvas	26 ½ × 42 ¼ in.	Portland Museum of Art, Maine

See also

• List of Hudson River School artists

References

1. Hankin 2007, p. 11.
2. Carr 2007, p. 17.
3. "Frederic Edwin Church :: July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts". Art Renewal Center. August 3, 2005. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
4. Carr 2007.
5. Carr 2007, p. 25.
6. "Frederic Edwin Church :: Autumn on the Hudson". Art Renewal Center. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
7. Brichacek, Joe (April 3, 2012). "Summer in South America". FLAAC Off the Wall. Vassar College. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
8. Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, www.mfah.org
9. Harvey 2002, p. 64.
10. "Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866". Google Art Project. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
11. "Erechtheum – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
12. "Study for "The Parthenon" – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
13. Gerdts, William (2007). "The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church". Antiques & Fine Art. Archived from the original on April 1, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
14. Carr 2007, p. 56.
15. "Frederic Edwin Church :: Landscape in Greece". Art Renewal Center. May 20, 2005. Archived from the original on April 2, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2011.

Bibliography

• Carr, Gerald, L. (2007). Frankel, Stephen Robert, ed. Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes. New York: Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company. pp. 17–63. ISBN 978-0-9741621-7-1.
• Hankin, Lisa Bush (2007). "Church: A Biographical Sketch". In Carr, Gerald L. Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes. Stephen Robert Frankel (editor). New York: Adelson Galleries; New York: Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services; and Texas: Meredith Long & Company. pp. 11–13. ISBN 978-0-9741621-7-1.
• Harvey, Eleanor Jones (2002). The Voyage of the Icebergs: Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece. Gerald L. Carr (contributions). New Haven: Dallas Museum of Art. p. 64. ISBN 0-300-09536-8.