# Twilight in the Wilderness, in Hudson River School

Frederic Edwin Church painted this in 1860, aged 34. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In his New York studio, Church painted this spectacular view of a blazing sunset over wilderness near Mount Katahdin in Maine, which he had sketched during a visit nearly two years earlier.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1860
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Unframed: 101.6 x 162.6 cm (40 x 64 in.); Framed: 124 x 185 x 13 cm (48 13/16 x 72 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965.233
- 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.

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