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El Rio de Luz

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Year
  
1877

Artist
  
Frederic Edwin Church

Location
  
National Gallery of Art

Media
  
Oil paint

Medium
  
oil on canvas

Dimensions
  
1.38 m x 2.14 m

Created
  
1877

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Periods
  
Luminism, Hudson River School

Similar
  
Frederic Edwin Church artwork, Luminism artwork, Landscape paintings

El rio de luz the river of light 1877 frederic edwin church


El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) (1887) is an oil on canvas landscape by Frederic Edwin Church acquired by the National Gallery of Art in 1965. According to the NGA, the work is a "fanciful pastiche" of the many sketches and drawings Church made while traveling in South America in 1857. The NGA notes that "the tightly focused realism, the overall tonal harmony and restrained coloration, and the compositional unity all lend a remarkable cohesiveness to the work." William Earl Dodge, Jr. (d. 1903) was the original owner of the work and passed it to his descendants. In 1965, it was given to the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island, and purchased in December 1965 by the National Gallery of Art. The painting was restored in 1988.

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