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 ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — 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 ...

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 ...

For all their powerful visual drama, many of the iconic landscapes of the American painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) are relatively small in size and were originally intended for private ...

Comets and meteors have traditionally been said to foretell the fall of princes. They also often serve as metaphors for other disasters of epic or biblical proportions. On July 20, 1860, a meteor ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – With all due respect to Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church arguably was America's greatest 19 th-century landscape painter. Church's wide-screen panoramas of ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Church writes about Heade's move to ...

Olana is the Persian-style home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). The house was built between 1870 and 1891 and co-designed by Central Park architect Calvert Vaux.

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