El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 138.1 x 213.7 cm (54 3/8 x 84 1/8 in.) framed: 160.7 x 237.5 x 7.6 cm (63 1/4 x 93 1/2 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Avalon Foundation
Accession Number
1965.14.1
About the Artist
Frederic Edwin Church · 1826–1900
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), born in Hartford, Connecticut, to a prosperous silversmith and banker father, Joseph Church, pursued art from youth thanks to his family's wealth. At age 18, introduced by patron Daniel Wadsworth, he studied under Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York, from 1844 to 1846, sketching across New England and earning Cole's praise for possessing "the finest eye for drawing...