![]() ![]() William Truettner, ed The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 (Washington, D.C. Carr, The Early Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, 1845≡854 (Fort Worth: University of Texas Press, 1987). Frederic Edwin Church’s undisputed masterpiece, Heart of the Andes built on the reputation he had acquired from Niagara and took it up several levels. His comprehensive landscapes incorporate extensive botanical, meteorological, and geological information as well as an almost unshakable faith in a deistic universe.ĭavid Huntington, The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of an American Era (New York: Braziller, 1966) Kelly, Church Franklin Kelly and Gerald L. Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church, 1859, via Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Church is also well known for his South American views, his hugely successful Niagara, 1857 (The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), exotic subjects such as The Icebergs, 1861 (Dallas Museum of Fine Arts), and views of the Middle East. ![]() One painting places the spectator on the edge of the precipice at Table Rock where the surging water rushes on with uneasy energy. By the 1850s, however, Church leaned toward a more objective rendition of landscape, particularly in his New England scenes. Perhaps two of the best known, paintings of the 19 th Century are two oil landscape paintings of Niagara Falls by American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). Church's early work, such as The Hooker Company Journeying Through the Wilderness, continues an allegorical trend of growing importance in Cole's late work. Church and Thomas Cole, the two most esteemed painters of the Hudson River school, were associated from 1844 to 1846 as pupil and master. ![]()
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