The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826â1900
1850â1851
Classification
landscapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-645
About this artwork
Landscape sketch showing a view of the rugged coastline of Maine at Mt. Desert Island, likely near Schooner Head. The immediate foreground is rendered only minimally in graphite and includes one large rock and a portion of a rockface. Rendered in great detail in oil paint, the middle distance is composed of large, rough boulders and rocky outrcoppings along the shoreline, characterized by their planar, cubic forms and dark fissures. The rock has a distinctly lateritious (brick-colored) tint, sim...