— 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 traditional, ...

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 ...

Explore Olana, the home and studio of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. Discover Church's original vision for the home and learn about preservation and restoration work including ...

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 Cole ...

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 of ...

Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in 2010 and has been updated. You can read the previous post here. The visual feast that is Olana is painter Frederic Edwin Church’s 1870s dream home ...

Prepared in connection with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art from Oct. 8, 1989 to Jan. 28, 1990. Foreword / J. Carter Brown -- Acknowledgments / Franklin Kelly -- Introduction / Franklin ...

In the era of the second Trump administration, the United States, a settler colonial nation that from its foundation has been invested in the expansion of its power and reach across space and over ...

Just below the town of Hudson, N.Y., some 500 feet above the river, stands Olana, the house of the painter Frederic Edwin Church. All the standard features of the full-blown Victorian villa are there: ...