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Frederic E. Church’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Reproduction of Frederic E. Church’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1883.

Historical March 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

• Frederic E. Church’s “Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” 1883, epitomizes the influence of British landscape aesthetics on mid-19th-century American painters.

A painting from Washington University’s collection, it is included in “The Beautiful, The Sublime, and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting,” Feb. 18 to April 8, at Washington University’s Gallery of Art in ‘Steinberg Hall.

Original photograph caption

Frederic E. Church’s “Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,” 1883, epitomizes the influence of British landscape aesthetics on mid-19th-century American painters. A painting from Washington University’s collection, it is included in “The Beautiful, The Sublime, and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting,” Feb. 18 to April 8, at Washington University’s Gallery of Art in ‘Steinberg Hall. The Paper, March 1984, page 5. Artist: Frederic E. Church; reproduction photographer not credited.

Originally published in The Paper, March 1984.

Read this article in the original newspaper issue.

Original source: SD_Times1984_03.pdf, printed page(s) 5; PDF page(s) 5.

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