Cotopaxi (painting)

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Cotopaxi
Artist	Frederic Edwin Church
Year	1862 (1862)
Movement	Landscape painting
Subject	Cotopaxi
Dimensions	Unframed: 48 × 85 in. (121.9 × 215.9 cm), Framed: 66 5/8 in. × 103 in. × 6 1/4 in. (169.2 × 261.6 × 15.9 cm)
Location	Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Owner	Detroit Institute of Arts

Cotopaxi is an 1862 oil painting by the Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church. The work was commissioned by well-known philanthropist James Lenox. The painting was met with great acclaim, and seen as a parable of the Civil War, then raging in the South, with its casting of light against darkness.^[1] The painting depicts Cotopaxi, a volcano that is also the second highest peak in modern-day Ecuador, spewing smoke and ash across a sunrise. Church also painted another landscape by the same name that also features the volcano in the distance.

See also[]

• List of works by Frederic Edwin Church

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