Search results for: “Frederic Edwin Church”
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Edwin Church oil sketch
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 above, top, which I’ll call the “cool” version, and the…
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Frederic Edwin Church on Google Art Project
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 as individual compositions, Church often placed small figures within a…
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Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church
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 large scale works in theatrical settings, in some ways anticipating…
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Frederic Edwin Church
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. Cole reportedly said that Church already had “the finest eye…
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Eye Candy for Today: Church’s icebergs
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 Steve Doherty’s blog. Just in case you haven’t seen enough…
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A few Autumnal paintings
OK, so I missed the 2026 Autumnal Equinox by two days, but I can still celebrate. Here are a few paintings of Autumn landscapes, mostly from the 19th century. You can find many of them larger from this Wikimedia Commons page (scroll down and notice the link to “next page” at bottom). Others you can…