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Wildflowers
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
1865
- Medium
- Oil on tan paperboard
- Classification
- Studies (visual works)
- Dimensions
- 34.4 × 39.8 cm (13 9/16 × 15 11/16 in.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Botanical sketch showing a group of wildflowers, likely in Jamaica or Vermont. Dominating the composition, the group includes red, purple, orange, yellow, and white flowers mixed among other leaves and blades of grass. Background made up of loose brushstrokes of brown.