“Kosmos”, which, based on the author’s extensive travels, put forward his views on the harmonyīetween science and nature. Frederic was exhilarated by Humboldt’s book, Naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Inspired by writers of the day including British social thinker John Ruskin and particularly, Prussian Romanticise, even idealise nature which he believed strongly was God’s creation. Like Cole, Frederic was a devout protestant and he sought always to Inspirations and StyleĮven though Church was a "new broom" at the helm of the Hudson River School, he still held true to Would produce some of the finest and awe-inspiring works ever seen. This newīreed of landscape artists was to find artistic inspiration further beyond New England and they Leader of the Hudson River School and a second generation of the movement was born. In 1846 Church sold his first painting and by 1948, at the tender age of 22 he took onĪfter the untimely and sudden death of Thomas Cole in late 1848, Frederic became the de facto Surrounding countryside of New York State and travelled all over New England sketching and honing Two years and during that time developed his skills considerably. Saying that, “Church has the finest eye for drawing in the world”. The movement was based on three fundamental themes discovery, explorationĪnd settlement and their work often depicted romanticised pastoral scenes of the great AmericanĬole was very impressed with Frederic and considered him a great talent. Who shared a great love of the New England scenery and believed in the peaceful communion of The Hudson River School was a group of loosely affiliated painters School in 1825 and, by the time he became Church’s tutor, had long established himself as a leading Was invited to study with the great landscape artist Thomas Cole. Thomas Cole and the Hudson River Schoolįrederic was interested in painting from a very early age and by the time he reached eighteen he (1861) was acquired at auction for $2.5 million, the third highest price ever paid for a painting at that In 1979 after interest had been renewed, Frederic’s work, “The Icebergs” Nonetheless,Ĭhurch’s paintings are widely sought after today with his work enjoying somewhat of a renaissance Throughout his career, but towards the end of his life his popularity dwindled. He enjoyed a great deal of critical and financial success Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.This financial comfort, of course allowed him to indulge his penchant for art at a young age.įamous for his enormous and meticulously detailed canvases, Church is perhaps the best known of ^ "Frederic Edwin Church :: Landscape in Greece".^ "Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866".^ Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1855 Archived at the Wayback Machine, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,.^ "Frederic Edwin Church :: Autumn on the Hudson".^ "Frederic Edwin Church | Above the Clouds at Sunrise | American".^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Carr 2007.^ "Frederic Edwin Church :: July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts".National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Syrian Landscape (also Landscape in Greece ) Tropical Scenery (South American Landscape) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Ĭolby College of Museum of Art, Maine Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Louisįine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VAĬollection of Henry and Sharon Martin Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. The Falls of the Tequendama near Bogota, New Granada George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, MassachusettsĪutumn (also Autumn on the Hudson )įrances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Twilight, "Short Arbiter 'Twixt Day and Night" (Sunset) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from Catskill MountainsĪlbany Institute of History and Art, New York July Sunset (also July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts ) Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636
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