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Drawing, Clouds and Rainbow, Jamaica
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint on cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
While the primary focus of the museum was pre-19th-century European decorative arts, an exception was made for sketches from American artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, Robert Blum, and Frederic Edwin Church. The Women’s Art School requested that the museum acquire figural drawings. “As quickly as they can be acquired,” Eleanor wrote, “leaves from the note and sketch books of artists of the last half of the 19th century, and the present day, are being placed [on the walls of the corridors and staircases].”
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
25.4 × 32.7 cm (10 × 12 7/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Clouds and Rainbow, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint on cardboard; 25.4 × 32.7 cm (10 × 12 7/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-384-b
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.