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Detroit Institute of Arts

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Guests of Honor: Frederic Church's Cotopaxi

Detroit Institute of Arts · Detroit, United States · 27 Mar to 25 Oct 2026

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Single-focus exhibition built around Frederic Edwin Church's 1862 painting Cotopaxi, depicting an erupting Andean volcano, shown together with three of Church's oil studies of the same subject and a related landscape by Louis Remy Mignot, marking the 200th anniversary of Church's birth.

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