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Aurora Borealis
is an
oil painting
on canvas completed by
Frederic Edwin Church
in 1865 and now held in the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
. It depicts the
northern lights
and the Arctic expedition of Dr.
Isaac Hayes
– a pupil of Church's – and first exhibited in 1865. The painting has been considered to depict the portent of a simultaneously triumphant and desolate
Union
victory, and been associated with Church's
Rainy Season in the Tropics
(1866).
Painting:
Frederic Edwin Church
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