Resources
Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, National Academy of Design, Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition, Mar. 22-Apr. 25, 1854. Cat. no. 64 [as A Country Home, no owner given].
New York, New York, Artists' Fund Society of New York, Gallery of Fine Art Institute, Third Annual Exhibition, Oct. 1862. Cat. no. 201 [as Country Home, owned by P. Richards, Jr.].
Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, 17th, 18th, 19th Century Western Art: An Exhibit of Selected Portions from the Collections of the Seattle Art Museum, Oct. 30-Nov. 24, 1975. No. cat. no. [as Landscape].
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, American Luminism, Oct. 25-Nov. 25, 1978. Text by William H. Gerdts. Cat. no. 2 [as Landscape].
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, The Early Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, 1845-1854, Mar. 9-Apr. 29, 1984. Text by Franklin Kelly and Gerald L. Carr. Cat. no. 17. pp. 122, 125-127, reproduced p. 125 and plate 8.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church. Oct. 8, 1989-Jan. 28, 1990. Text by Franklin Kelly, et al. Cat. no. 19, pp. 48, 161, 165, 201, reproduced p. 79.
Vienna, Austria, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, America: The New World in 19th-century Painting, Mar. 17- June 20, 1999. Text ed. Stephen Koja. Cat. no. 39, p. 87, reproduced.
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, The American Landscape's 'Quieter Spirit': Early Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church, June 25-Oct. 16, 2005. Text by Patricia Junker. No cat. no., pp. 3, 18-21, reproduced fig. 1.
Published References"The Fine Arts. Exhibition of the National Academy. (Second Article)." New-York Daily Tribune, Saturday, Apr. 22, 1854: p. 6.
"Academy of Design. (Seventh Article)." New York Evening Mirror, Apr. 18, 1854.
"Fine Arts. National Academy of Design." The Albion 13, no. 15 (Apr.15, 1854): p. 177.
"Editorial Notes---Fine Arts, The National Academy." Putnam's Monthly 3, no. 17 (May 1854): p. 567.
[Clark, Lewis Gaylord]. "Editor's Table [review of the NAD exhibition]." The Knickerbocker 43, no. 5 (May 1854): p. 540.
[Curtis, George W]. "Editor's Easy Chair [review of NAD exhibition]." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 8, no. 48 (May 1854): p. 846.
Huntington, David C. Frederic Edwin Church. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1966; p. 30. [Owner incorrectly given as Mrs. Arthur Delafield Smith, Arlington, Virginia].
Selected Works: Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1991; p. 110, reproduced.
Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape. Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988; pp. 75-77, 78. 81, reproduced p. 50, pl. 8.
Mathes, Charles. Treasures of American Museums. New York: Mallard Press, 1991; p. 237, fig. 2.
Cooper, James. Knights of the Brush: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000; p. 6, repro.
Carr, Gerald L. "Home by the Lake." In American Paintings XII, edited by Bruce Weber, p. 21. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2005.
Ledes, Alison Eckardt. "Church in Sharp Focus." The Magazine Antiques (September 2005): pp. 20-22, reproduced p. 20.
Junker, Patricia. "The American Landscape's 'Quieter Spirit': Early Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church." SAMconnects [magazine of the Seattle Art Museum] 19, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 14-15, reproduced fig. 1.
Hackett, Regina. "SAM's New Territory: 'Quieter Spirit' Speaks Volumes about American Art's Future at Museum." Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 26, 2005: section E, pp. 1, 3.
1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. London: Quintet Publishing Limited, 2006; p. 415.
Ishikawa, Chiyo et al. Seattle Art Museum Downtown. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007; reproduced p. 56.
Seattle Art Museum: Bridging Cultures. London: Scala Publishers Ltd. for the Seattle Art Museum, 2007; p. 24, reproduced.
Junker, Patricia. "A Sense of Place: American Art and the Seattle Art Museum." The Magazine Antiques (November 2008): p. 110, fig. 3, p. 110.
Cartwright, Derrick. "Introduction." In Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast: A Superb Vision of Dreamland, by Patricia Junker. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 2011; p. 7, reproduced.
[Carr, Gerald]. "Frederic Edwin Church; A New England Lake," entry in Christie's, New York, American Art, November 21, 2017, lot 44, pp. 89, reproduced.