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Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Artist Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826 - 1900)
Date1870
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 54 1/4 x 84 3/8 inches (137.8 x 214.31 cm)
Framed: 82 7/8 × 114 × 6 inches (210.49 × 289.56 × 15.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation
Object numberF77-40/1
SignedSigned and dated lower right: f. e. church / 1870
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 216
Collections
DescriptionScene of a walled city from a distant, high viewpoint. City is surrounded by barren, rolling hills, sunlit clouds gather in upper left. Three figures in Arab garb--one mounted on a camel, two on foot, one camel standing by--converse in the center foreground. Two twiested olive trees in lower right corner foreground.Exhibition History

Goupil’s Gallery, New York, March 27–May 1871.

 

First Annual Exhibition of the Hartford Art Association, Hartford Art Association, Conn., June 3–22, 1872, no. 1.

 

People and Places, New Britain Museum of American Art, Conn., August–September 25, 1966, unnumbered.

 

Frederic Edwin Church, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 12–June 30, 1966 (traveled), no. 137.

 

A Gallery Collects, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, October 19–November 19, 1977, no. 31.

 

Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., December 2, 1977–January 22, 1978, no. 57.

 

Close Observation: Selected Oil Sketches by Frederic E. Church from the Collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, September 9, 1978–July 27, 1980 (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., and Cooper-Hewitt Museum only), unnumbered.

 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse; The Allure of North Africa and the Near East, March 24–October 28, 1984 (traveled), no. 9.

 

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 14–December 6, 1987, no. 71.

 

Bilder aus der Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Staatlichen Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Berlin, November 22, 1988–May 15, 1989 (traveled), no. 14 (as Blick von Ölberg auf Jerusalem).

 

Frederic Edwin Church, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1989–March 18, 1990, no. 44.

 

Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo.; Saint Louis Art Museum; and Toledo Museum of Art, February 5, 1995–September 22, 1996 (traveled), unnumbered.

 

Tempus Fugit, Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 15–December 30, 2000, unnumbered.

 

Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 1870–1930, June 6, 2000–April 23, 2001 (traveled), no. 2.

 

To See Jerusalem Before I Die: Lincoln and the Jewish People, The New-York Historical Society, New York City, March 20–June 7, 2015, no cat.

Gallery Label
Frederic Edwin Church's monumental Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives shows the Holy City embedded in a panoramic landscape under an expansive, cloud-filled sky.  The Dome of the Rock sits near the center of the composition, while travelers in the foreground invite actual viewers of the painting to wonder at the scene. To assist original viewers of the painting in locating Jerusalem's sacred sites in the composition, the painter published a related geographical key.

The only pupil of Thomas Cole, Church raised American landscape painting to new heights of grandeur. Spectators flocked to Jerusalem's debut in New York in 1871, often using opera glasses to see its astonishing details more clearly. Church, who also designed the painting's frame, identified Jerusalem as his best work.

Provenance

To Hon. Timothy Mather Allyn, Hartford, Conn., 1870;

 

to Susan Pratt Allyn (wife of Timothy Mather Allyn), Hartford, Conn., by descent, 1882;

 

to Robert Allyn (son of Timothy Mather Allyn and Susan Pratt Allyn), Hartford, Conn., by descent, 1888;

 

to Alice B. Allyn (wife of Robert Allyn), Hartford, Conn., by descent, 1896;

 

to Robert J. Allyn (son of Robert Allyn and Alice B. Allyn), Hartford, Conn., by descent, 1922;

 

to Louise G. Allyn (wife of Robert J. Allyn, later Louise G. Ransom), Hartford, Conn., by descent, 1930;

 

to Mabel Allyn Babcock (daughter of Robert J. Allyn and Louise G. Allyn) and Harold Ransom (son of Louise G. Allyn Ransom), Hartford, Conn., by descent, 1965;

 

to (Robert Paul Weimann Jr., Ansonia, Conn., 1966);

 

to private collection, 1966;

 

to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977);

 

to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1977.
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