Our Banner in the Sky

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Our Banner in the Sky is a patriotic 1861 landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church that depicts the American flag formed by a dramatic sunrise sky and treeline.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf landscape painting
painting
artisticTheme nationalism
nature as symbol of nation
copyrightStatus public domain
countryOfOrigin United States
creator Frederic Edwin Church
depicts American flag
United States flag formed by clouds and sky
flagpole suggested by a dead tree trunk
sunrise sky
treeline
depictsEvent heightened Union sentiment at the start of the American Civil War
genre allegorical painting
patriotic art
hasInfluenced later patriotic landscape imagery in American art
hasPart blue sky suggesting the flag canton
red clouds suggesting flag stripes
stars suggested by bright points of light
hasVersion chromolithograph print
inception 1861
inspiredBy outbreak of the American Civil War
languageOfTitle English
locationOfCreation United States
mainSubject American Civil War era patriotism
materialUsed oil paint
movement Hudson River School
notableWorkOf Frederic Edwin Church
title Our Banner in the Sky

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