Niagara Falls has been called the American Mecca—a natural wonder and famed destination for honeymooners and daredevils alike. The colossal cataract at the border of New York and Ontario was the ...

— When Frederic Edwin Church unveiled “The Heart of the Andes” in the spring of 1859, it was not the painting art critics took issue with, but its frame. Church chose to forgo the traditional, ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — A hazy pink mass swells behind atmospheric clouds above the Catskill Mountains in a distant valley behind the simple white cross adorned in wreaths of flowers that is the central focus ...

One witness to an 1859 Northern Lights display was the artist Frederic Edwin Church, who later painted Aurora Borealis (above, detail). SAAM, 1911.4.1 In 1859, a record-breaking aurora borealis ...

Explore Olana, the home and studio of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. Discover Church's original vision for the home and learn about preservation and restoration work including ...

Frederic Edwin Church, a central figure in a group of artists known as the Hudson River School, became internationally renowned as a painter of monumental landscapes. The spectacular panoramas he ...

Prepared in connection with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art from Oct. 8, 1989 to Jan. 28, 1990. Foreword / J. Carter Brown -- Acknowledgments / Franklin Kelly -- Introduction / Franklin ...

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was arguably America’s pre-eminent landscape painter during the decades before and after the Civil War. The pupil and devoted friend of the English-born Thomas Cole ...