Fog off Mount Desert
1850
Frederic Edwin Church
Artist, American, 1826 - 1900
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on academy board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 29.2 x 39.4 cm (11 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
2025.89.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; The American Art-Union, New York; (its sale, New York, 15 December 1852, no. 119);[1] purchased by Samuel W. Bridgham II [1813-1870], Rhode Island. Private collection, Michigan; ( Alexander Gallery, New York, c. 1983); (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); sold 3 May 1985 to John Wilmerding, New York [1938-2024]; bequest 2025 to NGA.
[1] The American Art-Union, a subscription-based organization that promoted American art, shut down at the end of 1852 after a judge ruled the assocation's annual art drawings violated the state's constitutional ban of lotteries.The Art-Union sold off its entire collection at its gallery on 497 Broadway in December of that year.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no. 3, repro.
2014
Master, Mentor, Master. Thomas Cole and Frederic Church., Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, 2014, fig. 7.
Bibliography
1984
Young, Mahonri Sharp. "Other Regionalisms in American Painting." Apollo (November 1984), 333, fig. 16.
1988
Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape. Washington, D.C., 1988: 36, 37, fig. 32, 145, n.73.
WIlmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 1988: 137, fig. 7.
1994
Wilmerding, John. The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, 1994: 81-82, 187, repro.
2006
Conisbees, Philip, and Frank Kelly. "Small is Beautiful." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no.34 (Spring 2006): 16, fig.10.
Inscriptions
lower center: MT. DESERT / 1850