Frederick Edwin Church The Falls of Tequendama Painting ID:: 3871 Frederick Edwin Church1.jpg
The Falls of Tequendama 1854
Frederick Edwin Church Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Painting ID:: 3873 Frederick Edwin Church3.jpg
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Frederick Edwin Church Secluded Landscape at Sunset Painting ID:: 3874 Frederick Edwin Church4.jpg
Secluded Landscape at Sunset 1860
Frederick Edwin Church Cotapaxi Painting ID:: 3875 Frederick Edwin Church5.jpg
Cotapaxi 1857
Art Institute of Chicago
Frederick Edwin Church The Iceberg Painting ID:: 3876 Frederick Edwin Church6.jpg
The Iceberg
Frederick Edwin Church Sunset Painting ID:: 3877 Frederick Edwin Church7.jpg
Sunset
Frederick Edwin Church Niagara Falls Painting ID:: 3878 Frederick Edwin Church8.jpg
Niagara Falls 1857
Frederick Edwin Church New England Scenery Painting ID:: 3880 Frederick Edwin Church10.jpg
New England Scenery 1851
Springfield Library and Museums
Frederick Edwin Church Twilight in the Wilderness (nn03) Painting ID:: 23271 new8/Frederick Edwin Church-869286.jpg
Twilight in the Wilderness (nn03) 1860
Oil on canvas,101.6 x 126.6 cm 40 x 49 7/8 in Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland OH
Frederick Edwin Church Frederick Edwin Church Painting ID:: 31316 new4/Frederick Edwin Church-867962.jpg
Frederick Edwin Church nn07
Frederick Edwin Church Le caur des Andes Painting ID:: 31687 new4/Frederick Edwin Church-832623.jpg
Le caur des Andes mk75
1859
Huile sur toile
168.9x302.9cm
Frederick Edwin Church Details of Le caur des Andes Painting ID:: 31688 new4/Frederick Edwin Church-794938.jpg
Details of Le caur des Andes mk75
1859
Huile sur toile
168.9x302.9cm
Frederick Edwin Church Details of Le caur des Andes Painting ID:: 31689 new4/Frederick Edwin Church-643723.jpg
Details of Le caur des Andes mk75
1859
Huile sur toile
168.9x302.9cm
Frederick Edwin Church Niagara Painting ID:: 31889 new4/Frederick Edwin Church-584558.jpg
Niagara mk77
1857
Oil on canvas
42 1/4x990 1/2in
Frederick Edwin Church Niagara Painting ID:: 42771 new16/Frederick Edwin Church-379435.jpg
Niagara MK169
1857
oil Paint on cloth
108x230cm
Frederick Edwin Church Regenzeit in den Tropen Painting ID:: 45225 new16/Frederick Edwin Church-633442.jpg
Regenzeit in den Tropen mk181
1866
San Francisco
Frederick Edwin Church Sudamerikanische Landschaft Painting ID:: 45328 new16/Frederick Edwin Church-273427.jpg
Sudamerikanische Landschaft mk181
1856
Ol auf Leinwand
59.5x92cm
Frederick Edwin Church Dammerung in der Wildnis Painting ID:: 45329 new16/Frederick Edwin Church-688323.jpg
Dammerung in der Wildnis mk181
1860
Ol auf Leinwand
101.6x162.5cm
Frederick Edwin Church To the Memory of Cole Painting ID:: 51415 new18/Frederick Edwin Church-729897.jpg
To the Memory of Cole mk218
1848
Oil on canvas
32x49in
Frederick Edwin Church The Heart of the Andes Painting ID:: 52710 new19/Frederick Edwin Church-539778.jpg
The Heart of the Andes 1859 Oil on canvas, 169 x 303 cm
Frederick Edwin Church niagara falls Painting ID:: 56267 new20/Frederick Edwin Church-846939.jpg
niagara falls mk247
1867 ,oil on canvas,102x91 in,260x231 cm,national gallery of scotland,edinburgh,uk
Frederick Edwin Church Tropical Scenery Painting ID:: 72429 new23/Frederick Edwin Church-466583.jpg
Tropical Scenery Date ca. 1873(1873)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 97.3 X 152.2 cm (38.31 X 59.92 in)
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Frederick Edwin Church View of Cotopaxi Painting ID:: 73243 new24/Frederick Edwin Church-845753.jpg
View of Cotopaxi oil on canvas, by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church. 62.2 cm x 92.7 cm (24 1/2 in. x 36 1/2 in.) Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Date 1857(1857)
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Frederick Edwin Church Otter Creek Mt. Desert Painting ID:: 73244 new24/Frederick Edwin Church-789667.jpg
Otter Creek Mt. Desert oil on canvas, by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church. 42.54 cm x 60.96 cm (16 3/4 in. x 24 in.) Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Date 1850(1850)
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Frederick Edwin Church Red Painting ID:: 82242 new24/Frederick Edwin Church-846757.jpg
Red Oil on canvas
7 1/2 x 12 in.
Date 1861
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Frederick Edwin Church Our Banner in the Sky Painting ID:: 83675 new24/Frederick Edwin Church-436973.jpg
Our Banner in the Sky 1861(1861)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Frederick Edwin Church South American landscape Painting ID:: 92036 new25/Frederick Edwin Church-446835.jpg
South American landscape 1856(1856)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 59.5 X 92 cm (23.4 X 36.2 in)
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1826-1900
Frederick Edwin Church Galleries
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 ?C April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in his works".
The family wealth came from Church's father, Joseph Church, a silversmith and watchmaker in Hartford, Connecticut.(Joseph subsequently also became an official and a director of The Aetna Life Insurance Company) Joseph, in turn, was the son of Samuel Church, who founded the first paper mill in Lee, Massachusetts in the Berkshires, and this allowed him(Frederic) to pursue his interest in art from a very early age. At eighteen years of age, Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York after Daniel Wadsworth, a family neighbor and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum, introduced the two. In May 1848, Church was elected as the youngest Associate of the National Academy of Design and was promoted to Academician the following year. Soon after, he sold his first major work to Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum.
Church settled in New York where he taught his first pupil, William James Stillman. From the spring to autumn each year Church would travel, often by foot, sketching. He returned each winter to paint and to sell his work.
Between 1853 and 1857, Church traveled in South America, financed by businessman Cyrus West Field, who wished to use Church's paintings to lure investors to his South American ventures. Church was inspired by the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos and his exploration of the continent; Humboldt had challenged artists to portray the "physiognomy" of the Andes.