View of Cotopaxi

Chicago, Burch’s Building, Chicago Exhibition of Fine Arts First Exhibition of Statuary, Paintings, etc, 1859, cat. 180, as “Landscape.” Chicago, McVicker’s Theatre Building, Chicago Exhibition of the Fine Arts of the Chicago Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1863, cat. 200, as “South America.” Oakenwald School, Chicago, IL, Paintings and Water Colors, Dec. 6, 1935. Art Institute of Chicago and New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, The Hudson River School, 1945, cat. 45. New London, Conn., Lyman Allyn Museum, Eighty Eminent Painters of Connecticut, 1947, cat. 90. Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13 – Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 3. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951. IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 1. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Newark, University of Delaware and Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, American Painting 1857–1869, Jan. 10–Feb. 18, 1962, cat. 14. Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, Creation and Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederic Edwin Church, Mar. 29–July 14, 1985, cat. 6. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church, Oct. 8, 1989–Jan. 28, 1990, cat. 29. Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100–nen [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994. New York City, Berry–Hill Galleries, In Search of the Promised Land: Frederic Edwin Church and Exploration, Apr. 25–June 30, 2000; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Aug. 5–Oct. 1, 2000, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, Oct. 21, 2000–Jan. 3, 2001, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Jan. 18–Mar. 18, 2001 (Maine only).

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