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Church's Great Picture: The Heart of the Andes

Church's Great Picture: The Heart of the Andes

Avery, Kevin J.
1993
64 pages
40 illustrations
9 x 10 in
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Kevin J. Avery

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Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Julius Schrader German, Oil on canvas
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Julius Schrader
1859
Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church American, Oil on canvas, American
Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church
1859
The Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church
William Forrest
1862
Hummingbird and Passionflowers, Martin Johnson Heade American, Oil on canvas, American
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Martin Johnson Heade
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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Albert Bierstadt
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Church, Frederick Edwin, and Kevin J. Avery. 1994. Church’s Great Picture “The Heart of the Andes”: [Exhibition ... Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 5, 1993, through January 2, 1994]. 2. print.