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'''Frederic Edwin Church''' (1826 – 1900) was an American [[landscape]] [[painter]]. He was a pupil of [[Thomas Cole]] and heavily influenced by J M W Turner (known in this encyclopedia as [[William Turner]]). He painted the mountains of New England, the tropics, the 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] He laid the foundation for the post-Civil War generation of landscape painters, among them [[Albert Bierstadt]] and George Inness. [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/hudson.html]

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He was a central figure in the [[The Hudson River School|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". [http://www.fredericedwinchurch.org/]
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File:Church A Country Home.jpg|A Country Home, 1854.
File:Church Floating Icebergs 1859.jpg|Floating Icebergs, 1859.
File:Church The Heart of the Andes 1859.jpg|The Heart of the Andes, 1859.
Image:Church Cotopaxi.jpg|Cotopaxi, 1862.
File:Church Aurora Borealis.jpg|Aurora Borealis, 1865.

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File:Church Niagara Falls from the American Side.jpg|[[Niagara Falls]] from the American Side, 1867.
File:Church Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon, Athens 1869.jpg|Broken Columns, View from the [[Parthenon]], Athens, 1869.
File:Frederic Edwin Church The Parthenon 1871.jpg|The Parthenon, 1871.
File:Church Syria by the Sea.jpg|Syria by the Sea, 1873.
File:Church In the Andes 1878.jpg|In the Andes, 1878.
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Landscape in the Adirondacks.
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== External links ==
[[File:Church Above the Clouds at Sunrise 1849.jpg|thumb|Above the Clouds at Sunrise, 1849.]]
*[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.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/frederic_edwin_church_1826.htm FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH 1826-1900.]
*[http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?Artist_ID=425 Artworks for Frederic Edwin Church]
*[http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Frederic_Edwin_Church Frederic Edwin Church]
*[http://www.fredericedwinchurch.org/ Frederic Edwin Church] 
 
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[[Category:American Painters]]