# Cross in the Wilderness

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CHURCH, Frederic Edwin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/church-frederic-edwin-ra84ac4f0318c40>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 41 x 62 cm

## Commentary

This painting depicts a wild and desolate landscape developed around the central motif of the painting, the cross, which, though placed in a central position, is overshadowed and passes almost unnoticed among the grandeur of the natural setting.

## Related artworks

- [Autumn](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/church-frederic-edwin-ra84ac4f0318c40/autumn-rfaedc133d917de>)
- [Niagara Falls](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/church-frederic-edwin-ra84ac4f0318c40/niagara-falls-r81db47ad93551d>)
- [The Heart of the Andes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/church-frederic-edwin-ra84ac4f0318c40/the-heart-of-the-andes-r6a74e1f1393cc9>)

## Attribution

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