Frederic Edwin Church
American, 1826–1900
Born in Hartford, Connecticut; died in New York.
Church studied with Thomas Cole in the Catskills and became the most celebrated American landscape painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He travelled to South America, the Arctic, Europe and the Near East in search of grand subjects, and pictures such as Heart of the Andes drew paying crowds when exhibited on their own in New York. Twilight in the Wilderness of 1860 is among his most admired American views. He later designed his own house, Olana, overlooking the Hudson River.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 8 worksDated 1851–1877
- Mostly
- Drawing, Painting
- Movement
- Hudson River SchoolAmerican landscape painters of the mid-1800s who made wilderness their grand subject.
