# Niagara Falls by Moonlight, in Hudson River School

Frederic Edwin Church painted this (probably 1856), aged about 25. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> By the time Frederic E. Church executed this study of the Canadian side of Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls was already an icon of both American art and the American nation.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: probably 1856
- Medium: graphite and white gouache
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11.6 x 16.4 cm (4 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.30
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Frederic Edwin Church](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frederic-edwin-church), American, 1826–1900

Church studied with Thomas Cole in the Catskills and became the most celebrated American landscape painter of the mid-nineteenth century.

8 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Frederic Edwin Church](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/frederic-edwin-church?hang=749) (8 works)
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