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Sailboat and Crashing Wave by American Frederic Edwin Church — VisualArtsDB

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Sailboat and Crashing Wave

Sailboat and Crashing Wave

Sailboat and Crashing Wave

American Frederic Edwin Church

1840

Medium: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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