Frederic Edwin Church

(1826–1900) amerikansk landskapsmålare och konstsamlare

Frederic Edwin Church (USA, 1826–1900) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Frederic Edwin Church belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.

Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford and died in New York City. Frederic Edwin Church studied under Thomas Cole. Frederic Edwin Church worked in Catskill, New York City, Ecuador, and Colombia. Wikidata associates Frederic Edwin Church with Hudson River school. Frederic Edwin Church became a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The students included Jervis McEntee and Howard Russell Butler.

The best-known works include ‘Hillside’, ‘Storm Over Hudson Valley’, ‘Cathedral, Chillo, Ecuador’, and ‘Mountain Stream, Yemen Valley, Palestine’. The works belong mainly to the genres landscape painting and luminism. The catalogue has 169 works by Frederic Edwin Church with free images. The dated works span the years 1844–1895. Works by Frederic Edwin Church are held by several collections, among them Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Olana State Historic Site, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Wikidata links 13 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Randolph Rogers, George Inness, William Holbrook Beard, George Henry Hall, and Adolf Lier.

• Realism
• Heart of the Andes
• The Icebergs
• Aurora Borealis
• Niagara
• Niagara Falls, from the American Side
• Twilight in the Wilderness
• Cotopaxi
• El Rio de Luz
• El Khasne, Petra
• The Parthenon