Frederic Church

Frederic Church (1826-1900)

About the painter:
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A Country Home

Above the Clouds at Sunrise

Aurora Borealis

Autumn

Autumn in North America

Autumn on the Hudson

Beacon off Mount Desert Island

Camp Fire in the Maine Wilderness

Coast Scene

Cotopaxi

Cross in the Wilderness

El Khasne, Petra

Figures in Ecuadorian Landscape

Fog off Mount Desert

Grand Manan Island

Heart of the Andes

Home by the Lake

Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636

Icebergs and Wreck at Sunset

Ira Mountain, Vermont

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Lake Scene in Mount Desert

Landscape in Greece

Landscape in the Adirondacks

Landscape with Waterfall

Morning, Looking East over the Husdon Valley from Catskill Mountains

Mount Ktaadn

Mountains of Ecuador

New England Landscape

New England Landscape

New England Landscape

New England Landscape with Ruined Chimney

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, from the American Side

North Lake

On Otter Creek

Rainy Season in the Tropics

Rough Surf, Mount Desert Island

Salzburg Castle

Scene on the Catskill Creek, New York

Scene on the Magdalena

Scene on the Magdalena

South American Landscape

Storm in the Mountains

Sunrise in Syria

Sunset

Tamaca Palms

Tequendama Falls, Near Bogota, New Granada

The Aegean Sea

The Arabian Desert

The Cordilleras, Sunrise

The Evening Star

The Iceberg

The Icebergs

The Natural Bridge, Virginia

The Old Boat

The Parthenon

The Ruins at Sunion, Greece

The Wreck

To the Memory of Cole

Twilight

Twilight in the Wilderness

Twilight Mount Desert Island, Maine

View from Olana in the Snow

View in Pittsford, Vermont

View Near Stockbridge, Massachusetts

View of Mount Katahdin

View of Newport Mountain, Mount Desert

West Rock, New Haven

Morning in the Tropics

Seriously awesome paintings. Horace Greeley and the Transcendentalists would be proud.

The Niagara Falls views just blew me away. Also, some of the pictures made me think of Turner. I wonder if Turner might have been an influence on Church.

I think you can get a lot more intimate with the landscape by painting it, instead of, say, just taking a picture of it or be surrounded by it doing other stuff (like the subjects in his paintings). That’s what I get from his paintings, a sense of great intimacy with the landscape.

Hauling all of his painting equipment (easels, etc.) around, though, must have been a pain.

I tend to agree. I do appreciate the great potential of photographic art, but there’s something about a painting rendered through an artist’s eye that affects me in a different way. Maybe I relate to a painting more closely, human through human, instead of human through machine, I don’t know. But Church’s paintings are magnificent, I must say. Also, I expect much of that nature would have been lost to us otherwise.