WILDFLOWERS
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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

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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.