Paintings
Storm in the Mountains
PaintingLandscape
Details
- Author / creator
- Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1847
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 98.7 × 86.4 × 9.2 cm; Unframed: 75.5 × 62.8 cm; Former: 94.5 × 81.5 × 9 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- United States
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Ashcombe City Council acquisitions budget, 1969
About this object
Dominating this composition is a lightning-blasted tree embodying nature's awe-inspiring power and endless cycle of life and death. A popular motif because of these associations, the blasted tree was favored by many landscape painters like Church, who prominently featured it here.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
Signed in center on tree: "F. CHURCH. 1847"
