Drawing, in the New England woods, 1855-65; Frederic Edwin Church Oil on paperboard, roughly 13 x 9 inches ( 33 x 23 cm); in the Cooper Hewitt Collection of the Smithsonian Design Museum. Interestingly, the museum has posted two images of this work, the one Read More …
The dramatic and often spectacularly large paintings of 19th century American painter Frederic Edwin Church are rich with fascinating details and beautiful handling of his subjects. In addition to painting his sweeping vistas in enough detail that you could easily take multiple sections of them Read More …
I’ve suggested on several occasions that prior to the invention of movies as we know them, painters were the special effects wizards of their day, wowing the faithful (and cowing the doubtful) in church altarpieces and murals, and, in the 19th Century, displaying their detailed Read More …
How about some church on a Sunday? Frederic Edwin Church, that is. Church was the only student of Thomas Cole, who essentially started the Hudson River School of landscape painting, although whatever teaching transpired was probably more about what to paint than how to paint. Read More …
The Icebergs, Frederic Edwin Church On Wikimedia Commons, larger here. Original is in the Dallas Museum of Art. There is an article about the painting on the Wall Street Journal. You can get a sense of the scale of the painting in this photo from Read More …
Hugh Bolton Jones Was an American landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he began his art education at the Maryland Institute. He traveled and painted in Europe for four years, primarily in France, where he was Read More …