The Abbey in the Oakwood [SEP] creator
The Abbey in the Oakwood
The Abbey in the Oakwood () is an oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich. It was painted between 1809 and 1810 in Dresden and was first shown together with the painting "The Monk by the Sea" in the Prussian Academy of Arts exhibition of 1810. On Friedrich's request "The Abbey in the Oakwood" was hung beneath "The Monk by the Sea". This painting is one of over two dozen of Friedrich's works that include cemeteries or graves.
After the exhibition
represented on the grounds of Oakwood. Robert E. Launitz, creator of the for A. J. Downing on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., sculpted the memorial for Major General George H. Thomas, which incorporates a white marble sarcophagus topped with a bald eagle. William Henry Rinehart's final work, a life-size sculpture of Julia Taylor Paine, resides in Oakwood. J. Massey Rhind, known for his statue of Crawford W. Long in the National Statuary Hall Collection, is the artist behind the Robert Ross Monument.