COTOPAXI
- Date
- 1862
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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48 x 85 in. (121.9 x 215.9 cm)
Framed: 66 5/8 x 103 x 6 1/4 in.
- Department
- American Art before 1950
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Gibbs-Williams Fund, Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund, Merrill Fund, Beatrice W. Rogers Fund, and Richard A. Manoogian Fund
- Accession No.
- 76.89
- Provenance
- James Lenox (It was commissioned by him), New York, 1862-80.
Lenox Library (later New York Public Library), New York, 1880-1945.
M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1945
John Astor, Miami, Florida (He was a descendent of Lenox), New York, 1945-76.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1976.
DIA in 1976.
- Keywords
-
canvas, oil, paint, landscape
Published References
PUBLICATIONS:
NEW YORK EVENING POST, March 14, 1863.
NEW YORK HERALD, March 16, 1863, p. 4.
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, March 17, 1863, p. 2.
NEW YORK TIMES, March 17, 1863.
NEW YORK WORLD, March 18, 1863.
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, March 21, 1863.
THE ALBION, March 21, 1863.
NEW YORK LEADER, March 21, 1863, p. 1.
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, March 24, 1863.
NEW YORK EXPRESS, March 31, 1863.
HARPER'S WEEKLY, April 4, 1863, p. 210.
LONDON OBSERVER, June 18, 1865, p. 6.
LONDON WEEKLY TIMES, June 18, 1865, p. 5.
LONDON DAILY NEWS, June 19, 1865, p. 7.
LONDON REVIEW, 1865, p. 662.
LONDON MORNING STAR, June 26, 1865, p. 5.
LONDON EVENING STAR, June 26, 1865, p. 4.
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH, June 28, 1865, p. 3.
Taylor, Tom, LONDON TIMES, June 28, 1865, p. 6.
BELL'S WEEKLY MESSENGER (London), July 1, 1865, p. 3.
"Minot Topics of the Month," ART JOURNAL, n.s., 4, (July 1, 1865): 227.
"Art. Church's New Pictures of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi," READER, 6 (July 2, 1865): 18-19.
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, July 8, 1865, p. 18.
LONDON SUNDAY TIMES, July 9, 1865, p. 2.
COURT JOURNAL (London), July 15, 1865, p. 712.
LONDON MORNING POST, July 21, 1865, p. 6.
LONDON STANDARD, August 1, 1865, p. 3.
Palgrave, F.T., "English Pictures in 1865," FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW (London), 1 (August 1, 1865): 666.
"Minor Topics of the Month: By F.E. Church," ART JOURNAL (London), n.s., 4 (August 1, 1865): 257-258.
Bayley, W. P. "Mr. Church's Pictures. Cotopaxi, chimborazo, and the Aurora borealis. Consider also with Reference to English Art," ART JOURNAL (London) (September 1865): 265.
"Editorial Comment," ART INTERCHANGE 45 (July 1900): p. 12.
Walton, William, "The Field of Art: The Galleries of Paintings of the New York Public Library," SCRIBNER'S, vol. 50 (November 1911): p. 638.
Richardson, E.P., AMERICAN ROMANTIC PAINTING, New York: 1944, p. 29.
Huntington, David C., "Frederic Edwin Church, 1826-1900: Painter of the Adamic New World Myth," Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1960, pp. 111-114.
Huntington, David C., THE LANDSCAPES OF FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH: VISION OF AN AMERICAN ERA, New York: ,1966, pp. 10-20, 47-49.
Wallach, Allan, "Trouble in Paradis," ARTFORUM 1976, pp. 30, 35 (ill).
"Detroit Acquisition," Jackson Citizen Patriot, May 20, 1977, (ill).
"Masterwork Acquired Here," MACOMB DAILY, Macomb, MI, May 20, 1977.
$450,000 Paid," THE EVENING BULLETIN, Philadelphia, PA, Friday, May 20, 1977, (ill).
"Detroit Art Institute Acquires Masterwork," FLINT JOURNAL, May 20, 1977, (ill).
"Masterwork Acquired for $450,000," HERALD-PALLADIUM, Benton Harbor, MI, May 21, 1977, (ill).
"Detroit Institute gets Church Work," ANN ARBOR NEWS, May 21, 1977, (ill).
"Institute gets Church Painting," DAILY NEWS, Greenville, MI, May 23, 1977.
"Detroit Museum Gerts Art Work," TIMES, Bay City, MI, May 23, 1977.
"Detroit Art Institute Gets Painting," DAILY GLOBE, Ironwood, MI, May 25, 1977.
MEDICAL CENTER NEWS, Detroit Michigan, May 25, 1977, (ill).
"F.E. Church's Cotopaxi Acquired by DIA," DETROIT MONITOR, May 25, 1977, (ill).
THE SUNDAY PLAIN DEALER, May 29, 1977, Sec. 5, p. 17, (ill).
"About the Arts," ENQUIRER & NEWS, May 29, 1977.
"Heroic Landscape," FLINT JOURNAL, June 12,1977, (ill).
TOLEDO BLADE, Ohio, June 19, 1977, (ill).
"Volcanic Landscape on Display in Detroit," LANSING STATE JOURNAL, July 17, 1977, (ill).
"Frederic Church Masterwork Acquired by Detroit Institute of Arts", AMERICAN ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, July 1977.
DIA BULLETIN, vol 56, no 1, 1977, (cover ill).
THE MICHIGAN CATHOLIC, August 12, 1977, (ill).
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT FREE PRESS, June 4, 1978, p 3 (ill).
Rivard, Nancy, "American Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts," ANTIQUES 114 (November 1978): 1044-1055, (ill).
Rivard, Nancy, "Notes on the Collection: Cotopaxi," DIA BULLETIN, vol 56, no 3, 1978, pp 193-196 (ill).
Heslip. Michael, "Conservation Notes on Cotopaxi, DIA BULLETIN, vol 56, no. 3, 1978, pp. 196-198.
Stebbins, T. E., Jr., CLOSE OBSERVATION: SELECTED OIL SKETCHES BY CHURCH, Washington, D.C., 1978, p 24, (ill).
Carr, Gerald L., FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH: THE ICEBERG, Dallas:, 1980, p. 62, 66.
Talbot, William S. "Indian Summer by Jasper F. Cropsey," DIA BULLETIN, vol 58, no 3, 1980, p 156, (ill).
Wilmerding, John, AMERICAN LIGHT: THE LUMINIST MOVEMENT, 1850-1875, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, Washington, D.C.: , 1980, pp. 155,189.
May, Stephen, "Mountains: Spectacular Nineteenth-Century Visions," SOUTHWEST ART, Jan 1985, p 70 (ill) and p 73.
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT NEWS, April 15, 1985, p 20 (ill).
Detroit Institute of Arts, 100 MASTERWORKS FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York: Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1985, p 198, (p 199, ill).
Manthorne, Katherine, CREATIN AND RENEWAL: VIEWS OF COTOPAXI BY FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. Exhibition catalogue number 10, p. 73-74, pl. I p. 11.
Shaw, Nancy Rivard, "Rebellion, Defiance, and Beauty: Two Centuries of American Painting," APOLLO 124, no. 298 (December 1986): pp. 69, 72-73.
Friedman, H., SUN AND EARTH, New York: Scientific American Books, Inc., 1986, p 219, (col ill).
Goetzmann, William H., NEW LANDS, NEW MEN, New York City: Viking, 1986, p 202.
Kelly, Franklin, "Frederic Church in the Tropics," ARTS IN VIRGINIA, vol 27, nos 1-3, 1987, pp 16-33, ill pp 30-1.
Kelly, Franklin, FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH AND THE NATIONAL LANDSCAPE, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian institution Press, 1988, p. 125.
"The DIA Lends a Helping Hand with 19th-Century Art," THE DETROIT NEWS, October 4, 1989.
Minks, Louise, THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, New York: , 1989, p. 100-101.
Mitchell, Timothy "Frederick Church's the Icebergs Erratic Boulders and Time's Slow Changes," SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART, 3, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 3+, (ill, p. 5).
Sweeney, J. Gary, "The Nude of Landscape Painting: Emblematic Personification in the Art of the Hudson River School," SMITHSONIAN STUDIES IN AMERICAN ART, 3, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 43-65, (ill).
Sherman, Joe, "Frederic Church and his great Great Pictures," SMITHSONIAN 20, no. 7 (October 1989): 88-103.
Avery, Kevin, CHURCH'S GREAT PICTURE: HEART OF THE ANDES, New York: Metroplitan Museum of Art, 1993, p. 42, fig. 26, (ill).
Carr, Gerald L., FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH: CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF WORKS OF ART AT OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE, New York: , 1994, Volume I, pp. 239-241.
Davis, John Harlan, THE LANDSCAPE OF BELIEF: ENCOUNTERING THE HOLY LAND IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univeristy Press, 1996, pp. 174-175.
Detroit Insitute of Arts, AMERICAN PAINTINGS IN THE DETROT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997, pp. 47-52.
EXHIBITIONS:
Upper Hall, Goupil's Gallery, Broadway, New York, March-April 1863.
McLean and Company, Haymarket, London England, June-September 1865, gallery 7.
Lenox Gallery, The New York Public Library, New York, through 1898, no. 9.
The General Room, The New York Public Library, New York, through 1945, no. 1
Museum of Modern Art, New York, ROMANTIC PAINTING IN AMERICA, November 15, 1943-February 6, 1944, no. 49, (ill, p. 132).
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, A LOAN EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN PAINTINGS, October 5-29, 1945, no. 23.
Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College, AMERICAN ARTIST DISCOVER AMERICA, 1946. Exhibition catalogue number 10.
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH, 1966. Also exhibited at the Albany Institute of History and Art and M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1966. Exhibition catalogue by David Huntington and Richard Wunder, no. 82, pp. 17-18, 33-34, 63-64.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19TH CENTURY AMERICA, April 16-September 7, 1970, no. 107, (ill).
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, THE ROMANTIC VISION IN AMERICA, 1971. Exhibition catalogue by John Lunsford, number 24.
Museum of Modern Art, THE NATURAL PARADISE: PAINTINGS IN AMERICA 1800-1950, September 29-November 30, 1976, no. 29, (ill. p. 51).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, PAINTING AND OIL SKETCHES OF FREDERIC E. CHURCH, September 11-October 24, 1978, pp. 24-25.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A NEW WORLD: AMERICAN PAINTING, 1760-1900, Sept 7, 1983-. Also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., and the Palais du Louvre, Paris, -June 11, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 248-249, no. 45.
National Museum of American Art, FREDERICK EDWIN CHURCH: IMAGES OF COTOPAXI, March 29-July 14, 1985. Exhibition catalogue number 10, pp. 7, 25-27, 73-74.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, AMERICAN PARADISE: THE WORLD OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, September 22, 1987-January 3, 1988, pp. 254-257.
National Gallery of Art, Wasington, D.C. FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH, October 8, 1989-March 18, 1990. Exhibiton catalogue by Franklin Kelly, no. 36, pp. 61-62, 112.
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND, April 25-July 15, 2000. Also exhibited at the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, August 5-October 1, 2000; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, October 20, 2000-January 3, 2001; Portland Museum of Art, Maine, January 18-March 18, 2001. Exhibiton catalogue, fig. 26, p. 147.
