Newport Mountain, Mount Desert

1851

Frederic Edwin Church

Associated Names
Frederic Edwin Church

Artist, American, 1826 - 1900

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery M64

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 54 x 79.4 cm (21 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sotheby's, New York, sold at auction 2 June 1983, no. 42); (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); acquired 1983 by John Wilmerding, New York [1938-2024]; bequest 2025 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, repro.

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004-2005, no. 4, repro.

Bibliography

1994

  • Wilmerding, John. The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast, 1994:83-85, 187, fig. 83.

1999

  • Belanger, Pamela J. Inventing Acadia. Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert, 1999: 56-58, fig. 36.

2004

  • The John Wilmerding Collection: 'A Cause for Celebration.'" Antiques and the Arts Weekly(November 2004): 68.

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