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Original works by Frederic Edwin Church available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
View of Cotopaxi
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
In the Andes, 1878
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Icebergs, 1861
Frederic Edwin Church at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 paintings online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Frederic Edwin Church at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
3 paintings by Frederic Edwin Church online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Frederic Edwin Church at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Frederic Edwin Church
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1870 (Zoom)
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York
Former home of Frederic Edwin Church, now a museum
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
New England Landscape
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
8 works
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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The Falls of Tequendama, Near Bogota, New Granada
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Sister Wendy on Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Twilight in the Wilderness
Storm in the Mountains
Niagara Falls by Moonlight
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
View from Olana in the Snow
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City
3 works from the exhibition Tourism and the American Landscape
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Niagara, 1857
Tamaca Palms, 1854
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
South American Landscape, 1856
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Frederic Edwin Church in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW!
Otter Creek, Middlebury, Vermont
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1883
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Scene Among the Andes, 1854
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
West Rock, New Haven, 1849
New-York Historical Society
Cayambe, 1858
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Pinchincha
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Cotopaxi, Ecuador (detail)
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Ruins at Baalbek, 1868
Seattle Art Museum
Frederic Edwin Church at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Frederic Edwin Church at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Our Banner in the Sky, 1861
The Iceberg, ca.1875
The Huntington Library, California
Chimborazo, 1864
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Twilight, "Short Arbiter 'Twixt Day and Night", 1850
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Arch of Titus, 1871
The Parthenon, Tennessee
The Wreck
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Virtual Museum of Canada
Aurora Borealis, 1865
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Coast Scene, Mount Desert (Sunrise off the Maine Coast)
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frederic Edwin Church in the Art Renewal Center
Frederic Edwin Church in the Artchive
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
ImageNETion
The Athenaeum
178 works online by Church
Other Web Sites:
The Art and Architectural Trust, UK
A detailed analysis of Church's 1857 painting, Rocky Forest Pool
University of Virginia Digital Collections
Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frederic Edwin Church
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Resource Library Magazine
The Icebergs, 1861
Time Magazine
"Blockbusters of an Inventive Showman", 1990 article by Robert Hughes
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