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Edvard Munch
,
The Scream
, 1893,
oil, tempera and pastel
on cardboard.
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Frederic Church, at Olana, his Moorish-style hilltop mansion
overlooking the Hudson Valley, soon heard about the drama of
the skies and made a measured response. He wanted to see the
fiery skies in a bleak, deserted environment, and travelled north-
west to Chaumont Bay on the shore of Lake Ontario. There, in
late December, he painted the pack ice on the lake below the
lurid sky of pink and purple, orange and mauve.
In Norway, Edvard Munch wrote of 'Clouds like blood and
tongues of fire hung above the blue-black fjord and the city.'ยน5
Ten years later he came to paint
The Scream
(1893) in which not
