Landscape Painting

Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)
Our Banner in the Sky, 1861
Frederic Edwin Church is noted for creating landscape paintings that blend realistic detail with dramatic nationalism. Although it is a small-scale composition, Our Banner in the Sky boldly depicts the American flag as a transient arrangement of sky, clouds, and stars seemingly held aloft by the barren tree on the left. Church created an oil sketch that served as the basis for this work at the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861–65), following the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861. The flag, lowered to signal the Union’s surrender to rebel forces, soon became a contested national symbol. That June, Church was commissioned to produce a chromolithograph after his oil sketch, and the Terra Foundation’s version is one of several lithographs the artist himself presumably painted by hand. The work strongly resonated with Northern wartime viewers, who enthusiastically embraced this rallying image.
Learn more about this painting on the Terra Foundation website.
Landscape Painting

Thomas Cole (1801–1848)
Landscape with Figures: A Scene from "The Last of the Mohicans", 1826

William S. Jewett (1821–1873)
The Promised Land - The Grayson Family, 1850

John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872)
Almy Pond, Newport, c. 1857

Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)
Our Banner in the Sky, 1861

William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900)
Rocks at Nahant, 1864

Thomas Moran (1837–1926)
Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon, 1864

Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865)
Brace's Rock, Brace's Cove, 1864

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)
Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880)
Morning in the Hudson, Haverstraw Bay, 1866

John La Farge (1835–1910
Paradise Valley, 1866–68

Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
Newburyport Marshes: Approaching Storm, c. 1871

Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837–1908)
The Sidewheeler "The City of St. Paul" on the Mississippi River, Dubuque, Iowa, 1872

Francis A. Silva (1835–1886)
On the Hudson near Haverstraw, 1872

Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)
The Iceberg, c. 1875

Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910)
Indian Encampment, c. 1870–76