Frederic Edwin Church: Niagara Falls

"The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church’s collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that established him as an eminent and influential artist in his ...more

Published to accompany a major exhibition of notable landscapes and seascapes by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), this catalogue offers a rich sampling of the artist's five decades of creative production.Reproduced here in full color, the works constitute a veritable travelogue of the places Church visited over the course of his ...more

Beautiful four-color paintings and illustrations! Olana was the home of Frederic Church, a student of Thomas Cole and a major figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Called by Church "the center of the world," Olana's Perrsian-style house and romantically-designed grounds are a "perfect Eden of picturesque beauty." ...more

Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in the April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest "Great Picture", a painting titled "The North". Despite favourable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this ...more

Frederic Church (1826-1900), who gained international renown for paintings such as Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), and The Icebergs (1861), was inspired by his extensive travel and study. His work was also informed by his appreciation of a new visual medium. Fire & ...more

Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in. Northern Europe gave rise to both the wide, atmospheric spaces of Brueghel's morality tales and to the moody, dramatic depictions of nature found in Jacob Ruisdael's canvases. The 18th century produced idyllic landscapes like Lorrain's that were heavily influenced ...more

In this lavishly illustrated new study, Gerald Carr focuses on several aspects of the life and art of Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900): his individuality, his absorption with the natural sciences, and his lifelong zest for travel. Two introductory chapters prepare the reader for the five chapters organized around ...more