Frederic Edwin Church
American landscape painter (1826-1900) · United States · Artists · Died at 73
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Something wrong?Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets.
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![New England Scenery (1851) was Church's "first true composite landscape" - it used sketches from various locations to develop a more detailed and spatially complex landscape than found in Cole's work.[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/New_England_Scenery%2C_Frederic_Edwin_Church%2C_1851_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Springfield%2C_MA_-_DSC03984.JPG/1280px-New_England_Scenery%2C_Frederic_Edwin_Church%2C_1851_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Springfield%2C_MA_-_DSC03984.JPG)
New England Scenery (1851) was Church's "first true composite landscape" - it used sketches from various locations to develop a more detailed and spatially complex landscape than found in Cole's work.[5]
The Heart of the Andes (1859)
Cotopaxi (1862)
Tropical Scenery (1873)
Our Banner in the Sky (1861) both oil and lithograph by Frederick Edwin Church - a colorful sunset interpreted to reflect divine support for the Union during the American Civil War
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Cabinet card of Church c. 1868 by Napoleon SaronyFamily
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Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.
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