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Item Number: 116948
Title: Maine Sublime : Frederic Edwin CHURCH's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin
Author: Wilmerding, John
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780801451034
Description: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, The Olana Collection, 2012. 25cm., hardcover, 80pp., 77 illus., most in color. Exhibtion held at Portland Museum of Art. Summary: Maine Sublime brings together all of the artwork in the Olana collection resulting from and inspired by Church’s travels, from finished oil sketches that Church selected to mount, frame, and display at his home to pencil sketches and cartoons that he stored in portfolios. The subjects include such specific locations as Sunset Bar Harbor (1854) and works like Sunset (ca. 1852–65) and Twilight a Sketch (1858), which were inspired by dramatic Maine skies and are evocative of the region as a whole. Throughout his life, Church would continue to visit Maine, sketching, fishing, and hiking. In 1878 he bought land on Lake Millinocket with a view of Katahdin and built a simple cabin. After Church’s marriage in 1860, his wife Isabel often joined his excursions to Maine. In a witty cartoon included in this catalog, Frederic and Isabel Church on Mount Desert Island, Church captures his wife’s admiration of the scenery.

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