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Inspired by German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt\u2019s concept of ecological interconnectedness, Frederic Edwin Church traveled to South America to meticulously study the tropical landscape. The artist produced at least ten finished paintings of the Ecuadorian volcano, this one completed in his studio just before his second visit to the region. For Church and other Christian viewers, nature, with all its creative and destructive wonders, was evidence of divine power. The painting likewise reflected an imperialist vision, as US government officials eyed Latin America as a site for territorial expansion and conquest.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"62.2 \u00d7 92.7 cm (24 1\/2 \u00d7 36 1\/2 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":92,"height":62,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed, lower right: \"F. E. Church '57\"","credit_line":"Gift of Jennette Hamlin in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dana Webster","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Chicago Press and Tribune, June 1, 1859, 2.\n\n\u201cThe Art Exhibition,\u201d Chicago Tribune, Oct. 27, 1863, 2.\n\n\u201cThe Art Exhibition of the Sanitary Fair: First Alcove,\u201d Chicago Daily Journal, Oct. 29, 1863, 4.\n\nGeorge William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings<\/em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 56, cat. 547, as <em>South America<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/mdp.39015036764952\">https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/mdp.39015036764952<\/a>.\n\nThe Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 14 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 28.\n\nRobert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings<\/em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 75, no cat. no, as <em>South America<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/uva.x006053578\">https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/uva.x006053578<\/a>.\n\nRobert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings<\/em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 75, no cat. no, as <em>South America<\/em>.\n\nRobert B. Harshe, <em>A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 130, cat. 547, as <em>South America<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/gri.ark:\/13960\/s2hxd115k60\">https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/gri.ark:\/13960\/s2hxd115k60<\/a>.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago Quarterly 45 (Sept. 1951), 45 (ill.).\n\n\u201cArt in Chicago: Americans Reinstalled,\u201d Art Digest (Oct. 1951), ill.\n\nDavid C. Huntington, Frederic Edwin Church, 1826\u20131900: Painter of the Adamic New World Myth (Ph.D. Diss., Yale University, 1960), 107.\n\nDavid Hanks, \u201cAmerican Paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Nov. 1973, 902.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 188\u201390, no. 86.","exhibition_history":"Chicago, Burch\u2019s Building, Chicago Exhibition of Fine Arts First Exhibition of Statuary, Paintings, etc, 1859, cat. 180, as \u201cLandscape.\u201d\n\nChicago, McVicker\u2019s Theatre Building, Chicago Exhibition of the Fine Arts of the Chicago Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1863, cat. 200, as \u201cSouth America.\u201d\n\nOakenwald School, Chicago, IL, Paintings and Water Colors, Dec. 6, 1935.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago and New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, The Hudson River School, 1945, cat. 45.\n\nNew London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Eighty Eminent Painters of Connecticut, 1947, cat. 90.\n\nMilwaukee\u2013Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851\u20131951, Feb. 13 \u2013 Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 3. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee\u2013Downer College Feb. 13, 1951.\n\nIL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago<\/em>, June 10\u201316, 1957, no. 1.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/4071\/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950\"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 1, 1959\u2013Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].\n\nNewark, University of Delaware and Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, American Painting 1857\u20131869, Jan. 10\u2013Feb. 18, 1962, cat. 14.\n\nWashington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, Mar. 29\u2013July 14, 1985, cat. 6.\n\nWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church, Oct. 8, 1989\u2013Jan. 28, 1990, cat. 29.\n\nNagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, <em>Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100\u2013nen<\/em> [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20\u2013May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10\u2013July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6\u2013Sept. 25, 1994.\n\nNew York City, Berry\u2013Hill Galleries, In Search of the Promised Land: Frederic Edwin Church and Exploration, Apr. 25\u2013June 30, 2000; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Aug. 5\u2013Oct. 1, 2000, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Oct. 21, 2000\u2013Jan. 3, 2001, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 18\u2013Mar. 18, 2001 (Maine only).","provenance_text":"Walter Wright, Chicago, from 1857 to 1876; by descent to Anne E. 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