Recto Vertical view of two housetops and top of palm tree, with two black birds, rising Verso rough sketch (graphite) of the trunk of a palm Title Palm Trees and Housetops, Ecuador Creator Frederic Edwin Church Creator Lifespan 1826/1900 Date Created May 1857 Physical Dimensions w292 x h354 cm Type Drawing Rights Gift of Louis P. Church Medium Brush and oil paint, traces of graphite on thin paperboard Viewing Notes In foreground are two housetops and top of palm tree that rises in between them. Two black birds sit on palm tree. Paper Support Thin paperboard Inscribed Inscribed in brush and black oil, at lower right May / .57. Exhibitions Grand Rapids, MI - Grand Rapids Art Museum, The American Spirit Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran. Masterworks from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution , October 17, 2003 - January 4, 2004.New York, NY - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Church's Great Picture The Heart of the Andes , October 5, 1993 - January 30, 1994.Wellesley, MA - Wellesley College Museum, Frederic Edwin Church', September 9, 1976 - October 31, 1976.Claremont, CA - Claremont College Galleries, Frederic Church , November 6, 1975 - December 19, 1975; Travelled to San Diego, CA - Fine Arts Galleries of San Diego, January 10, 1976 - February 29, 1976; ?, MI - University of Minnesota, March 29, 1976 - May 9, 1976.New York, NY - Graham Gallery, Frederic Edwin Church , December 17, 1974 - January 11, 1975.Washinton, DC - SAAM [formerly, National Collection of Fine Arts], Frederic Edwin Church , February 9, 1966 - March 13, 1966; Travelled to Albany, NY - Institute of History and Art, March 30, 1966 - April 30, 1966; New York, NY - Knoedler Galleries, June 1, 1966 - June 30, 1966.Detroit, MI - Detroit Insitute of Fine Arts, Painting in America The Story of 450 Years , April 23, 1957 - June 9, 1957.Detroit, MI - Detroit Insitute of Fine Arts, The World of the Romantic Artist, December 28, 1944- January 28, 1945. Dimensions 35.4 x 29.2 cm (13 15/16 x 11 1/2 in.)Mat (Mat) 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.) Bibliography Detroit Insitute of Arts. The World of the Romantic Artist (Detroit, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, 1944) cat. no. 67, p.32.Preston, Edgar Preston. Painting in America The Story of 450 Years (New York, NY; 1956) fig. 101.SAAM [formerly, National Collection of Fine Arts]. Frederic Edwin Church. (Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution, 1966), cat. no. 70.Navas Sanz de Santamaria, Pablo. The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador, April-October 1853 (Bogata, Colombia Villegas Editores in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008), 21.
