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Aurora Borealis is an 1865 painting by Frederic Edwin Church of the Aurora Borealis and the arctic expedition of Dr. Isaac Hayes. The painting measures 56 x 83&nbsp;1/2 in. (142.3 x 212.2&nbsp;cm) and is now owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The artist (Frederic Edwin Church) had to convey the experience of watching the aurora without having witnessed it himself.

Returning to this article because I wanted to add how awesome it is to know whenever one of the very authors, photographers, artists, etc. who&rsquo;s work you post and source on tumblr give you props for promoting their work rather than rage about it and cry about copyright and &ldquo;theft&rdquo; like others tend to do.
In this case I would like to return those props and respect to Meghan Ferriter who is an interdisciplinary researcher and anthropologist and the original author of the above Wikipedia article on a 1865 painting by Frederic Edwin Church which is called &ldquo;Aurora Borealis&rdquo; and as you can see, is quite stunning. I think I cheese just as much as they do when this happens, it&rsquo;s a mutual cheesing based on celebrating the sharing of knowledge.



blah blah i cut out the text congratulating wikipedia for being wikipedia and tumblr for being tumblr; I don&rsquo;t think those are worth congratulations.What&rsquo;s more frustrating is that clicking this picture links to the wikipedia article which is irrelevant for the picture (click that to see the full resolution image of Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church) 