Edward Mitchell Bannister, Approaching Storm, 1886, 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
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Approaching Storm
- Artist
- Date
- 1886
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 40 1⁄8 x 60 in. (102.0 x 152.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. William Miller
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Occupation — industry — lumber
- Landscape — weather — storm
- Figure male — full length
- Object Number
- 1983.95.62
Artwork 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)
