![]() ![]() The Maine material presented in the exhibition ranges from finished oil sketches that Church displayed in his home to pencil sketches and cartoons that he stored in portfolios and shared with friends, fellow artists and guests. Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp, 1895 on loan from the Portland Museum was the artist’s last major Maine canvas and a birthday gift to his wife- a work of great personal significance that both enhances the exhibition and directly relates to the artist’s life at Olana. Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860 (Cleveland Museum of Art), which reflects the tensions surrounding the impending Civil War. ![]() Twilight, A Sketch, 1858 the study for Church’s great masterpiece “The work done in Maine during the 1850s and early 1860s, primarily at Mount Desert, embodied sentiments of increasing national strife, in symbolic and suggestive ways, while the career of the later 1860s and 1870s was devoted more to his personal time in inland Maine around Mount Katahdin,” explains Wilmerding. Wilmerding’s analysis of the paintings inspired by Maine reveals Church as both a public and private artist. Over the next decades Church continued to visit Maine capturing sensational sunsets, robust crashing waves, impressive peaks, and an abundance of wilderness. In 1852 he trekked inland focusing on the area of Mount Katahdin. He sketched the scenery which he described as “magnificent both land and seaward,” capturing the splendid sky effects in The artist first journeyed to Maine in the summer of 1850 spending six weeks on Mount Desert exploring the coast, its rocky Islands, and peaceful harbors. Newport Mountain from Mount Desert, 1851 from the National Gallery of Art depicting nature’s more awesome character in the turbulent surf and looming mountain will be displayed alongside the related sketch, also from the National Gallery of Art, Loans of 4 important works from the Portland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and private collections will augment the sketches from Olana. Many will be on public view for the first time, including the vibrant plein-air sketch Maine Sublime includes 10 oil and 13 pencil sketches from the Olana collection that celebrate the glories of Maine scenery. Guest curated by John Wilmerding, the Christopher Binyon Sarofim Professor of American art, emeritus, at Princeton University. This exhibition explores first his early mastery of the conventions of art history, the expressions of national history during his maturity, and finally the poignant reflections of personal history in his later years. While famous for his scenes of the Arctic, South America, and the Near East, his landscapes of Maine were central to his career for over four decades. Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin On View at Olana June 9 – October 31, 2013Īn exhibition of Frederic Church landscapes, Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin, will open at Olana, the historic home and studio of the artist, on Sunday June 9.įrederic Church was America's most important painter during the middle years of the 19th century. ![]()
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