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Drawing, Mount Katahdin Rising over Katahdin Lake
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated before 1878 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This oil sketch and the two closer-up views of Katahdin’s Great Basin (hanging nearby) were used by Thomas Moran for his illustrations accompanying an article by A. H. Holly for Scribner’s Monthly Magazine (1878), “Camps and Tramps about Ktaadn [sic],” recounting an 1876 trek up the mountain by Church and his artist colleagues Lockwood de Forest III, Sanford Gifford, Horace W. Robbins, and A. L. Holly.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
Its dimensions are
30.6 x 50.8 cm (12 1/16 x 20 in.)
It is inscribed
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, at ?: Katahdin.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Mount Katahdin Rising over Katahdin Lake; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard; 30.6 x 50.8 cm (12 1/16 x 20 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-626
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
