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, which is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.[2]

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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

See also

• List of works by Frederic Edwin Church

References

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