Storm in the Mountains (Q20202094)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: landscape art (Q191163)
artist: Frederic Edwin Church (Q366212)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: United States of America (Q30)
depicts: storm (Q81054) mountain storm (Q27761660) tree (Q10884)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.52

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: Dominating this composition is a lightning-blasted tree embodying nature's awe-inspiring power and endless cycle of life and death. A popular motif because of these associations, the blasted tree was favored by many landscape painters like Church, who prominently featured it here.

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