Vision of the Cross

Note: This painting by Frederic Edwin Church is not a comic strip. The exhibition material appears to contain an error. Church (1826–1900) was a landscape painter of the Hudson River School, known for dramatic natural scenes rendered in oils. This work depicts a vast cavern or mountain vista with luminous light breaking through, characteristic of Church's romantic aesthetic. Comic strips, which emerged as a distinct medium in the 1890s newspaper press through artists like Richard Outcault (*The Yellow Kid*), developed their own visual grammar—sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters—that became foundational to comics. Please verify the source material intended for this exhibition.