Cleveland Museum of Art
Storm in the Mountains
Frederic Edwin Church
- Date
- 1847
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominating this composition is a lightning-blasted tree embodying nature's awe-inspiring power and endless cycle of life and death. A popular motif because of these associations, the blasted tree was favored by many landscape painters like Church, who prominently featured it here. Church's spectacular home and studio, named Olana, is preserved as a New York State Historical Site.
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