1940.301: Sunset from Olana

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.301

People

Frederic Edwin Church, American (Hartford, CT 1826 - 1900 New York, NY)

Title

Sunset from Olana

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1891

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230353

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on paper

Dimensions

11.8 x 16.3 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l: F.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Acquired from the artist by Mrs. Brown (Lucretia Titus Brown?), New York, 1891; her daughter (?), Mrs. Edward C. Moore, Cambridge, MA; her gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Moore

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.301

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 21 as "Landscape"
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 63, cat. no. 35, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

• Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948

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