The Andes of Ecuador
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The Andes of Ecuador is an 1855 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church, the premier American landscape painter of the time. It is the most significant result of his 1853 trip to South America, where he
Frederic Edwin Church, The Andes of Ecuador, c. 1855, HAA
The Heart of the Andes
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The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church. It depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on
The Andes of Ecuador
…shows the influence of Church's sketches in northern Ecuador and southern Colombia. In 1859, after his second trip south, Church painted his monumental The Heart of the Andes, another composite of South American landscapes and a re-interpretation of Humboldt's aesthetic ideas. The Andes of Ecuador depicted little tropical…
Church Heart of the Andes
Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo (Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1810)
There is no photographic record of the 1859 exhibition of The Heart of the Andes; its exhibition in 1864 is pictured. The overhanging portraits and handrails were added for its inclusion in the fine art gallery at New York's Metropolitan Sanitary Fair.
The 1862 engraving by Charles Day & Son. 34.4 x 63.2 cm