# 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._

8 works in the collection.

- [Twilight in the Wilderness](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/twilight-in-the-wilderness-cma-141639), Frederic Edwin Church, 1860. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [The Aegean Sea](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-aegean-sea-met-10480), Frederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Heart of the Andes](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/heart-of-the-andes-met-10481), Frederic Edwin Church, 1859. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [The Parthenon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-parthenon-met-10482), Frederic Edwin Church, 1871. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Niagara Falls by Moonlight](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/niagara-falls-by-moonlight-cma-148774), Frederic Edwin Church, probably 1856. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Italian Farmhouse](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/italian-farmhouse-si-chndm-1917-4-1500), Frederic Edwin Church, September 1868 - April 1869. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [Mt. Katahdin from South Turner Mountain, Maine](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/mt-katahdin-from-south-turner-mountain-maine-si-chndm-1917-4-630-a), Frederic Edwin Church, 1877–78. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [Century Plant, Jamaica](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/century-plant-jamaica-si-chndm-1917-4-675-b), Frederic Edwin Church, May–September 1865. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.