Artist
Frederic Edwin Church
American, 1826–1900
Frederic Edwin Church was an American Hudson River School painter. 30 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford.
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views.
He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.
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- The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens to the public · 1872 The opening launched what became the largest art museum in the Americas.
- National Gallery Opens Through American Eyes · 2013 The exhibition strengthened public attention to Church's oil sketches as independent objects of aesthetic and scholarly value.
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