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Frederic Edwin Church's our Banner in the sky: an update on an American icon.
Early in 1980 a nice lady from Connecticut named Dora Schwimer (1910-1997) brought a small unsigned oil painting to Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York. It depicted a scene at dawn or twilight that featured lurid red and yellow streaks of clouds in the sky and a patch of blue punctuated with stars. The sky had been painted to resemble an American flag, and to further that impression, a dead tree in the left foreground served as a flagpole.
With the help of an added inscription on the bottom of the sheet, Sotheby's experts quickly recognized the painting as a version of a well-known work by Frederic Edwin Church titled Our Banner in the Sky. Painted in May 1861 after ...
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