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This artist’s trips were often financed by Cyrus Field. A painting by this artist featured flora from five different bio-regions he referenced from the Naturgemälde [na-TOOR-ge-mel-duh] map. A cross of sunlight dominates the center-right of this artist’s El Rio de Luz. A dirt path at the bottom-left of a work by this artist leads to two men stopping by a wooden (15[1])cross. At this artist’s mansion Olana, he created a painting which shows a ruined mausoleum through a cracked rock. This artist of (*) El Khasné, Petra was inspired to paint one region after reading Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos. Using sketches from a trip to Ecuador, this artist painted a sunrise obscured by smoke spewing from the Cotopaxi volcano. For 10 points, name this Hudson River School artist who painted Mount Chimborazo in The Heart of the Andes. ■END■

ANSWER: Frederic Edwin Church [accept FEC]
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