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Approaching Storm
1886
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Born: St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828
Died: Providence, Rhode Island 1901
oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 60 in. (102.0 x 152.4 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of G. William Miller
1983.95.62
Smithsonian American Art Museum
3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center
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 ultimate goal. (Hartigan, Sharing Traditions, 1985)
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Keywords
Figure(s) in exterior - rural
Landscape - weather - storm
Occupation - industry - lumber
painting
paint - oil
fabric - canvas
About Edward Mitchell Bannister
Born: St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828 Died: Providence, Rhode Island 1901
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