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accession number: 1915.684
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The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows), 1879. Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900). Oil on canvas; unframed: 118.8 x 183.2 cm (46 3/4 x 72 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.684
title: The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)
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creation date: 1879
creation date earliest: 1879
creation date latest: 1879
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creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 118.8 x 183.2 cm (46 3/4 x 72 1/8 in.)
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inscription: signed lower left: F. E. Church / 79
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Inaugural Exhibition
opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
title: Frederic Edwin Church
opening date: 1966-03-30T05:00:00
Frederic Edwin Church. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 2-March 13, 1966); Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY (March 30-April 30, 1966); M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. (June 1-30, 1966).
title: American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1979-07-07T04:00:00
American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).
title: American Paintings 1825-1915
opening date: 1979-07-07T04:00:00
American Paintings 1825-1915. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979); Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH (September 17-October 13, 1980).
title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00
Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'New York, Century Association (June 7, 1879) (as The Monastery of San Pedro). (Review in Boston Evening Transcript titles the painting "Our Lady of the Snows.")', 'opening_date': '1879-06-07T04:56:02Z'}
* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Frederic Edwin Church (February 2-March 13, 1966); traveled to Albany, NY, Institute of History and Art (March 30-April 30, 1966); traveled to New York, Knoedler Galleries (June 1-June 30, 1966), cat. No. 140 and p. 80.', 'opening_date': '1966-02-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 (July 7-November 1, 1979), cat. fig. 7.', 'opening_date': '1979-07-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition (June 6-September 20, 1916), cat. p. 125, illus. p. 292.', 'opening_date': '1916-06-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center, American Paintings 1825-1915, from the Cleveland Museum of Art (September 17-October 13, 1980), same as Coshocton, OH exhibition.', 'opening_date': '1980-09-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (June 6-September 8, 1991), illus. in cat. p.15.', 'opening_date': '1991-06-06T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
H. B. Hurlbut, Cleveland (1880, as "Monastery Our Lady of the Snows").
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Report of the Museum's Second Year." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 69-79.
page number: Mentioned: p. 71
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136208
Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879.
page number: Mentioned: p. 74
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Huntington, David Carewh. "Frederic Edwin Church, 1826-1900: Painter of the Adamic New World Myth." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1960.
page number: Mentioned: p. 211-213
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Huntington, David Carew. The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of an American Era. New York: G. Braziller, 1966.
page number: Mentioned: p. 96, 129
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Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36.
page number: Reproduced: p. 24, cat. 36
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Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 170-171
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Turner, Evan H., ed. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 15
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 39
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Carr, Gerald L. Frederic Edwin Church: Catalogue Raisonné of Works of Art at Olana State Historic Site, 2 vols. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 367, 368, 405, 411, 414, 415, 443; Reproduced: p. 415, fig. 136
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Howat, John K. Frederic Church. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
page number: Reproduced: p. 174, fig. 185
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Carr, Gerald L. "Church's Olana: A New Eden." In Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes. New York, NY: Adelson Galleries, 2007.
page number: Mentioned: pp.122-23; Reproduced: p. 123
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