FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH (1826-1900)

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FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH (1826-1900)

Twilight on the Isthmus of Panama

signed with initials F.E.C., l.l. -- signed F.E. Church, 1883 and inscribed with our best Regards to yourself and brother. Most sincerely yours on a label attached to the backing -- oil on paper laid down on canvas
6½ x 8 5/8 in. (16.1 x 22 cm.)

Provenance

Nathan Appleton
Doll & Richards, Boston
Dannenburg & Roman Galleries, Inc., New York

Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Panama Canal Exhibition, Feb. 1885

Lot Essay

A note attached to the original backing reads Painted at Nahaut, Mass. the summer of 1883 by F.E. Church entirely from memory, by him given to Nathan Appleton, who placed it in the Boston **** exhibition in the **** of the Panama Canal Exhib. It was painted on a sheet of note paper.