id: 141639 accession number: 1965.233 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.233 updated: 2024-04-13 11:22:53.305000 Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860. Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900). Oil on canvas; framed: 124 x 185 x 13 cm (48 13/16 x 72 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.); unframed: 101.6 x 162.6 cm (40 x 64 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1965.233 title: Twilight in the Wilderness title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1860 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1860 current location: 206 American Landscape creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 124 x 185 x 13 cm (48 13/16 x 72 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 101.6 x 162.6 cm (40 x 64 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed and dated lower right: "F. E. CHURCH / -60-" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1965 opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965). 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: Art of the United States: 1670-1966 opening date: 1966-09-28T04:00:00 Art of the United States: 1670-1966. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 28-November 27, 1966). title: Wilderness opening date: 1971-10-09T04:00:00 Wilderness. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9-November 14, 1971). title: Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976 opening date: 1976-03-07T05:00:00 Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976). title: American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875 opening date: 1980-02-10T05:00:00 American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 10-June 15, 1980). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760 - 1910 opening date: 1983-09-07T04:00:00 A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760 - 1910. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (co-organizer) (September 7-November 13, 1983); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (December 7, 1983-February 12, 1984). title: American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School opening date: 1987-10-04T04:00:00 American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 4, 1987-January 3, 1988). title: Bilder Aus des Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (Paintings from the New World: American Paintings from the 18th and the 19th Century) opening date: 1988-11-17T05:00:00 Bilder Aus des Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (Paintings from the New World: American Paintings from the 18th and the 19th Century). Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany (November 17, 1988-February 12, 1989); Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (organizer) (November 17, 1988-February 12, 1989); Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-8024 Zürich, Switzerland (March 3-May 15, 1989). title: Frederic Edwin Church opening date: 1989-10-08T04:00:00 Frederic Edwin Church. National Gallery of Art (co-organizer) (October 8, 1989-January 28, 1990). 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). title: America. The New World in 19th-century Painting America. Die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19. Jahrhunderts opening date: 1999-03-17T00:00:00 America. The New World in 19th-century Painting America. Die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Belvedere, Wien, Austria (organizer) (March 17-June 20, 1999). title: The American Sublime opening date: 2002-02-20T00:00:00 The American Sublime. Tate Britain, London (organizer) (February 20-May 19, 2002); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA (June 17-August 25, 2002); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (September 22-November 17, 2002). title: CMA Highlights opening date: 2005-06-21T00:00:00 CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005). title: Maine Sublime opening date: 2014-10-04T00:00:00 Maine Sublime. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2014-January 25, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Goupil's Gallery, New York, June 1860.", 'opening_date': '1860-01-01T04:56:02Z'} * {'description': "New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Academy of Design, The New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Selected from the Private Art Galleries, (1876), no. 125, listed as being part of J. T. Johnston's collection.", 'opening_date': '1876-01-01T04:56:02Z'} * {'description': 'New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings by Frederic E. Church, N. A., (28 May to 15 October1900), illustrated in catalogue as plate 6.', 'opening_date': '1900-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Baltimore, The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore, Art Loan Exhibition, (1902), no. 89, listed as the property of Miss Garrett.', 'opening_date': '1902-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Frederic Edwin Church, (12 February to 13 March 1966), no. 44; E18/ C56 W319. Exhibition traveled to the Albany Institute of History and Art (30 March through 30 April 1966), and, without Twilight in the Wilderness, to M. Knoedler and Company, New York (1 June through 30 June 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-02-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, (28 September to 27 November, 1966), no. 48, brief comments about the color in Twilight in the Wilderness by Lloyd Goodrich, p. 25, catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1966-09-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., The National Endowment for the Arts with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wilderness, (9 October to 14 November 1971), no. 69.', 'opening_date': '1971-10-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776-1976, (6 March to 11 April 1976), no. 10. Exhibition traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May through 13 June 1976), The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July through 15 August 1976), and the Cleveland Museum of Art, (8 September through 10 October 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-03-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875, (10 February through 15 June 1980), no. 204; includes the following remarks: in "Design and Measurement in Luminist Art", Lisa Andrus discusses the composition of and quality of light in Twilight in the Wilderness, p.36; Earl A. Powell\'s "Luminism and the American Sublime" describes Church\'s use of cadmium colors to achieve brilliant light in many of his paintings, including Twilight in the Wilderness; and Twilight\'s role in the development of the 19th century ideal of the sublime, p. 92; "Church and Luminism: Light for America\'s Elect" by David C. Huntington describes how Church\'s technique in Twilight in the Wilderness erases all evidence of the artist\'s touch, p. 170, illus. 167.', 'opening_date': '1980-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760- 1910, (7 September through 13 November 1983), no. 39.', 'opening_date': '1983-09-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Also traveled to The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. (7 December 1983- 12 February 1984) and, without Twilight in the Wilderness, to Grand Palais, Paris (16 March- 11 June 1984).', 'opening_date': '1984-03-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, (4 October 1987 through 3 January 1988), pp.45, 251-4.', 'opening_date': '1987-10-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Bilder Aus des Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, (22 November 1988 through 5 February 1989), no. 15. Exhibition traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich, (3 March - 15 May 1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-03-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church, (8 October 1989 to 28 January 1990), no. 34, catalogue text by Franklin Kelly, pp. 58-59, 61-62, illus. p. 110, cat. 34.', 'opening_date': '1989-10-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Vienna, Osterreichischen Galerie Belvedere, America: Die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19 Jahrunderts, (17 March through 20 June 1999), no. 45.', 'opening_date': '1999-03-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'London, The Tate Britain, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880, (21 February - 19 May 2002), no. 25; pp. 129-131, p. 55-6, illus. p. 115, 131; Exhibition traveled to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (17 June -25 August 2002) and Minneapolis Institute of Art (22 September- 17 November 2002).', 'opening_date': '2002-02-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/21/2005 - 09/11/2005); "CMA Highlights"', 'opening_date': '2005-06-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': "New York, Avery's Gallery, (1866). Also shown at Dusseldorf Gallery, New York, 1866. Both exhibitions held in connection with auction, according to The Round Table, 10 March 1866. (See reference above.)", 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'New Haven, Connecticut, Yale College, Second Annual Exhibition of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, Founded as a Department of Yale College by the Late Augustus Russell Street of New Haven, Conn., (1870), no. 114, listed as the property of John T. Johnston.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': "New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Academy of Design, The New York Centennial Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Selected from the Private Art Galleries, (1876), no. 125, listed as being part of J. T. Johnston's collection.", 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings by Frederic E. Church, N. A., (28 May to 15 October1900), illustrated in catalogue as plate 6.', 'opening_date': '1900-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Baltimore, The Municipal Art Society of Baltimore, Art Loan Exhibition, (1902), no. 89, listed as the property of Miss Garrett.', 'opening_date': '1902-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Frederic Edwin Church, (12 February to 13 March 1966), no. 44; E18/ C56 W319. Exhibition traveled to the Albany Institute of History and Art (30 March through 30 April 1966), and, without Twilight in the Wilderness, to M. Knoedler and Company, New York (1 June through 30 June 1966).', 'opening_date': '1966-02-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, (28 September to 27 November, 1966), no. 48, brief comments about the color in Twilight in the Wilderness by Lloyd Goodrich, p. 25, catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1966-09-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., The National Endowment for the Arts with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wilderness, (9 October to 14 November 1971), no. 69.', 'opening_date': '1971-10-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776-1976, (6 March to 11 April 1976), no. 10. Exhibition traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May through 13 June 1976), The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July through 15 August 1976), and the Cleveland Museum of Art, (8 September through 10 October 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-03-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875, (10 February through 15 June 1980), no. 204; includes the following remarks: in "Design and Measurement in Luminist Art", Lisa Andrus discusses the composition of and quality of light in Twilight in the Wilderness, p.36; Earl A. Powell\'s "Luminism and the American Sublime" describes Church\'s use of cadmium colors to achieve brilliant light in many of his paintings, including Twilight in the Wilderness; and Twilight\'s role in the development of the 19th century ideal of the sublime, p. 92; "Church and Luminism: Light for America\'s Elect" by David C. Huntington describes how Church\'s technique in Twilight in the Wilderness erases all evidence of the artist\'s touch, p. 170, illus. 167.', 'opening_date': '1980-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760- 1910, (7 September through 13 November 1983), no. 39.', 'opening_date': '1983-09-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Also traveled to The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. (7 December 1983- 12 February 1984) and, without Twilight in the Wilderness, to Grand Palais, Paris (16 March- 11 June 1984).', 'opening_date': '1984-03-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Bilder Aus des Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, (22 November 1988 through 5 February 1989), no. 15. Exhibition traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich, (3 March - 15 May 1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-03-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, Frederic Edwin Church, (8 October 1989 to 28 January 1990), no. 34, catalogue text by Franklin Kelly, pp. 58-59, 61-62, illus. p. 110, cat. 34.', 'opening_date': '1989-10-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Vienna, Osterreichischen Galerie Belvedere, America: Die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19 Jahrunderts, (17 March through 20 June 1999), no. 45.', 'opening_date': '1999-03-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'London, The Tate Britain, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880, (21 February - 19 May 2002), no. 25; pp. 129-131, p. 55-6, illus. p. 115, 131; Exhibition traveled to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (17 June -25 August 2002) and Minneapolis Institute of Art (22 September- 17 November 2002).', 'opening_date': '2002-02-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE William T. Walters [1820-1894], Baltimore, MD, consigned to Samuel Putnam Avery for sale at Henry H. Leeds and Co. date: 1860-1864 footnotes: *
Walters, a prominent collector and namesake of the Walters Art Museum, commissioned the painting from Church in 1860. 
citations: (Henry H. Leeds and Co., New York, NY, Feb. 12-13, 1864) date: 1864 footnotes: *
Consigned to Samuel Putnam Avery by Walters, the painting seems to have been bought in by Avery at this sale and then put up for auction again in 1866. 
citations: (Samuel Putnam Avery [1822-1904], New York, NY) date: 1864-1866 footnotes: *
After likely buying in the painting at the 1864 auction, Avery, a close associate of Walters, offered it for sale again in 1866. 
citations: (Leeds and Minor at Old Dusseldorf Gallery, New York, NY, March 9, 1866, no. 174, sold to John Taylor Johnston) date: 1866 footnotes: *
This auction included “the entire collection of the foreign oil and water color paintings, consigned to Samuel P. Avery," ”to which will be added the celebrated picture by F.E. Church, Twilight in the Wilderness."  As in the 1864 auction, here, too, Walters consigned the painting to Avery for sale. 
citations: John Taylor Johnston [1820-1893], New York, NY date: 1866-1876 footnotes: citations: (Chickering Hall, John Taylor Johnston sale, Dec. 19-22, 1876, sold to John Work Garrett?) date: 1876 footnotes: *
According to Emily de Forest, Johnston's daughter and Robert de Forest's wife, the painting was purchased at this sale by Mary Garrett.  Lockwood de Forest, Robert's brother, however, maintains it was purchased by John Work Garrett and then descended to his daughter, Mary. 
citations: John Work Garrett [1820-1884], Baltimore, MD, by descent to his daughter, Mary E. Garrett? date: 1876-probably 1884 footnotes: citations: Mary E. Garrett [1854-1909], Baltimore, MD, sold to Robert de Forest date: Probably 1884-at least 1902 footnotes: *
Mary Garrett was a close friend of the de Forests. 
citations: Robert de Forest [1848-1931], Parkers Point, CT, by descent to his brother, Lockwood de Forest date: After 1902-1931 footnotes: *
 According to Robert's wife, Emily, he purchased the painting from Mary Garrett. 
citations: Lockwood de Forest [1850–1932], Santa Barbara, CA, by descent to his son, Alfred Victor de Forest date: 1931-1932 footnotes: citations: Alfred Victor de Forest [1888-1945], Marlborough, NH, by descent to his son, Taber de Forest date: 1932-1945 footnotes: citations: Taber de Forest, Maine, sold to David McCoy date: 1945-early 1960s footnotes: citations: David McCoy, Lyme, CT, sold to Robert Weimann date: Early 1960s footnotes: citations: Robert Weimann, Ansonia, CT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1962 or 1963-1965 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1965- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS New York Herald (June 8, 1860): 10. page number: url: Lockwood de Forest, letter to Emily de Forest, Sept. 16, 1931, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Franklin W. Kelly, letter to William S. Talbot, Oct. 21, 1982, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: "Art Exhibitions and Sales," The Nation 2 (March 15, 1866): 346. page number: url: Franklin W. Kelly, letter to William S. Talbot, Oct. 21, 1982, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: "Art Notes," The Round Table 3 (March 10, 1866): 151. page number: url: "Art Exhibitions and Sales,” The Nation 2 (March 15, 1866): 346. page number: url: Eleanor Harvey, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, April 8, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Auction Sales,” New York Times (March 6, 1866): 6. page number: url: “Art Notes,” The Round Table 3 (March 10, 1866): 151. page number: url: Franklin W. Kelly, letter to William S. Talbot, May 5, 1982, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Franklin W. Kelly, letter to William S. Talbot, Oct. 21, 1982, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Harold Kirker, letter to Sherman Lee, July 10, 1969, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Emily de Forest, letter to Lockwood de Forest, Sept. 10, 1931, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Emily de Forest, letter to Lockwood de Forest, Sept. 10, 1931, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Lockwood de Forest, letter to Emily de Forest, Sept. 16, 1931, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Lockwood de Forest, letter to Emily de Forest, Sept. 16, 1931, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Emily de Forest, letter to Lockwood de Forest, Sept. 10, 1931, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Sander, Kathleen Waters. Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age. 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