HUDSON, N.Y. — When Frederic Edwin Church unveiled “The Heart of the Andes” in the spring of 1859, it was not the painting art critics took issue with, but its frame. Church chose to forgo the ...

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was arguably America’s pre-eminent landscape painter during the decades before and after the Civil War. The pupil and devoted friend of the English-born Thomas ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – With all due respect to Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church arguably was America's greatest 19 th-century landscape painter. Church's wide-screen panoramas ...

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 ...

One depiction, however, captured the public’s imagination more than the others: Frederic Edwin Church’s Niagara (1857), a seven-foot-wide colossus that seemed to press viewers dizzyingly close ...

Tickets: $10 for 'Afterglow;' $20, main floor tour. Information and reservations: 518-751-0344, olana.org Painted by Frederic Edwin Church in 1848 and exhibited just three months after his mentor ...

You can read the previous post here. The visual feast that is Olana is painter Frederic Edwin Church’s 1870s dream home overlooking the Hudson River near Hudson, N.Y. Church was one of the masters of ...

Olana is the Persian-style home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). The house was built between 1870 and 1891 and co-designed by Central Park architect Calvert Vaux.