Twilight in the Wilderness | |
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Artist | Frederic Edwin Church |
Year | 1860 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 101.6 cm × 162.6 cm (40.0 in × 64.0 in) |
Location | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, US |
Website | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Twilight in the Wilderness is an 1860 oil painting by American painter Frederic Edwin Church. The woodlands of the northeastern United States are shown against a setting sun that intensely colors the dramatic altocumulus clouds. Church scholar John K. Howat describes the painting as "one of his finest ever"[1] and as "the single most impressive example of Church's depictions of unsullied North American woodlands and their most famous representation in nineteenth-century painting".[2]