HUDSON, N.Y. — From the shores of St. Johns, Newfoundland, acclaimed artist Frederic Edwin Church had hoped to be able to paint the icebergs that dotted the coastline, but his hopes were dashed by ...
HUDSON, N.Y. — A hazy pink mass swells behind atmospheric clouds above the Catskill Mountains in a distant valley behind the simple white cross adorned in wreaths of flowers that is the central focus ...
A reconsideration of Church's works offering a sustained examination of the aesthetics of detail that fundamentally shaped 19th-century American landscape painting. "Frederic Church (1826-1900), the ...
One witness to an 1859 Northern Lights display was the artist Frederic Edwin Church, who later painted Aurora Borealis (above, detail). SAAM, 1911.4.1 In 1859, a record-breaking aurora borealis ...