Approaching Storm

Item

Title
Approaching Storm
Description
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)
Identifier
1983.95.62
Date
1886
Medium
Oil paintings
Format
40 1/8 x 60 in. (102.0 x 152.4 cm)
Rights
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