Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Jennette Hamlin in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dana WebsterCC0 (public domain) · 8,511 × 5,650 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF
1857 · Art Institute of Chicago
View of Cotopaxi
painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1857, Art Institute of Chicago)
In the picture
- Date
- 1857WikidataArt Institute of Chicago: 1857
- Medium
- Oil on canvasArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 62.2 × 92.7 cmArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: 62.2 × 92.7 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
- Gallery
- Gallery 161Art Institute of Chicago
- Genre
- landscape paintingWikidata
- Materials
- oil paint, canvasWikidata
- Inventory no.
- 1919.753Wikidata
- Credit line
- Gift of Jennette Hamlin in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dana WebsterArt Institute of Chicago
Provenance
Where it has been
- 1919 –Art Institute of Chicagohigh confidenceWikidata · collection
Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Burch’s Building, Chicago Exhibition of Fine Arts First Exhibition of Statuary, Paintings, etc, 1859, cat. 180, as “Landscape.”
Chicago, McVicker’s Theatre Building, Chicago Exhibition of the Fine Arts of the Chicago Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1863, cat. 200, as “South America.”
Oakenwald School, Chicago, IL, Paintings and Water Colors, Dec. 6, 1935.
Art Institute of Chicago and New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, The Hudson River School, 1945, cat. 45.
New London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Eighty Eminent Painters of Connecticut, 1947, cat. 90.
Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13 – Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 3. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951.
IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 1.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Newark, University of Delaware and Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, American Painting 1857–1869, Jan. 10–Feb. 18, 1962, cat. 14.
Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, Mar. 29–July 14, 1985, cat. 6.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church, Oct. 8, 1989–Jan. 28, 1990, cat. 29.
Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100–nen [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
New York City, Berry–Hill Galleries, In Search of the Promised Land: Frederic Edwin Church and Exploration, Apr. 25–June 30, 2000; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Aug. 5–Oct. 1, 2000, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Oct. 21, 2000–Jan. 3, 2001, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 18–Mar. 18, 2001 (Maine only).
Identifiers & sources+
- Art Institute of Chicago76571
- Wikimedia CommonsFrederic Edwin Church - View of Cotopaxi - 1919.753 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg
- inventory number1919.753
- WikidataQ20202175
- Fame rank#18993 (1 Wikipedia articles)



