Approaching Storm

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
Creator: Bannister, Edward Mitchell
Publisher: Smithsonian American art museum
Type: Oil paintings
Source: Smithsonian Institute
Medium: Oil paintings
Format: 40 1/8 x 60 in. (102.0 x 152.4 cm)
Rights: © 2018 Smithsonian