Edward Mitchell Bannister, Approaching Storm
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Edward Mitchell Bannister

Approaching Storm

1886

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
102 × 152.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-137060

This windy scene of a lone figure struggling in the face of a storm would have held special meaning for nineteenth-century viewers, who believed that their nation's landscape was infused with God's presence. In 1886, the year he painted Approaching Storm, Edward Mitchell Bannister wrote an essay titled "The Artist and His Critics," in which he argued that spiritual expression is the artist's ulti…

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of G. William Miller

Registry history

  • 1886 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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