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Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School
September 21, 2012 - February 20, 2013
Cayambe
Title
Cayambe
Date
1858
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 30 x 48 1/8 in. ( 76.2 x 122.2 cm )Frame: 41 1/8 x 59 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. ( 104.5 x 150.5 x 10.8 cm )
Description
Landscape depicting the Cayambe, a volcano in Ecuador about 20, 000 feet high, on the line of the Equator; lush greenery with a pond in foreground; reflective river in middleground; stone pedestal in foreground on left; group of houses to far left; large volcano with mountain range in center; clear sky with traces of clouds.
Credit Line
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number
S-91
Marks
inscriptions: lower left: "F.E. Church/1858"
Gallery Label
Cayambe was commissioned at the apex of Church's career by the New York City refiner, Robert L. Stuart.
Bibliography
"Domestic Art Gossip," The Crayon, March 1858, pp. 87-8.
"Painting at the Lenox Library," The Critic: a Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts (18865-1898), Feb. 25, 1893, Vol. 19, No. 591, p. 120.
"Early American Landscape and Genre Painters Seen to Advantage in the Picture Galleries of the Public Library," The New York Times, Aug. 27, 1911, p. SM15.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings 1815 to 1865, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949, pp. 162-4.
National Collection of Fine Arts, Frederic Edwin Church. An Exhibition Organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1966, pp. 10, 32.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1969, Vol. I, p. 213.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 179-80.
Manthorne, Katherine, "The Quest for a Tropic Paradise: Palm Tree as Fact and Symbol in Latin American Landscape Imagery, 1850-1875," Art Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Winter 1984), pp. 374-82.
Manthorne, Katherine, Creation &