One witness to an 1859 Northern Lights display was the artist Frederic Edwin Church, who later painted Aurora Borealis (above, detail). SAAM, 1911.4.1 In 1859, a record-breaking aurora borealis ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006. "Frederic Edwin Church," Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1966. "American painters ...
"Frederic Edwin Church," Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Image on file. The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the ...