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| − | '''Frederic Edwin Church''' (1826 – 1900) was an American [[landscape]] [[painter]]. | + | '''Frederic Edwin Church''' (1826 – 1900) was an American [[landscape]] [[painter]]. He was pupil of [[Thomas Cole]]. He painted the mountains of New England, the tropics, th rivers, waterfalls, and volcanoes of the Andes (Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, and Sangay), the sunlit landscapes of America, the icebergs of the far North, the coast of Maine, Europe and the Middle East. ''Church, at the end of his active painting career, like many American painters in the last decades of the nineteenth century, sought through light a poetic unity in place of a scientific one based on a painstaking detailing of the physical world.'' [http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/frederic_edwin_church_1826.htm] |
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*[http://www.artknowledgenews.com/node/1524 Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church at National Academy Museum] | *[http://www.artknowledgenews.com/node/1524 Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church at National Academy Museum] | ||
*[http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=421 Art by Frederic Edwin Church.] | *[http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=421 Art by Frederic Edwin Church.] | ||
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Revision as of 02:55, March 20, 2010
Frederic Edwin Church (1826 – 1900) was an American landscape painter. He was pupil of Thomas Cole. He painted the mountains of New England, the tropics, th rivers, waterfalls, and volcanoes of the Andes (Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, and Sangay), the sunlit landscapes of America, the icebergs of the far North, the coast of Maine, Europe and the Middle East. Church, at the end of his active painting career, like many American painters in the last decades of the nineteenth century, sought through light a poetic unity in place of a scientific one based on a painstaking detailing of the physical world. [1]
He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in his works". [2]
A Country Home, 1854.
Floating Icebergs, 1859.
The Heart of the Andes, 1859.
Cotopaxi, 1862.
Aurora Borealis, 1865.
Niagara Falls from the American Side, 1867.
Syria by the Sea, 1873.
In the Andes, 1878.
Landscape in the Adirondacks.