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General News: Frederic Edwin Church Paintings on View
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| West Rock, New Haven 1949 by Frederic Church |
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| Maria Miller designed the exhibit catalogue. |
January 27, 2008
Admirers of the Hudson Valley school of 19th-century painters will want to visit a new exhibit in New York City featuring the work of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900. A selection of majestic works by Church, arguably America’s finest 19th-century landscape painter, went on view at Adelson Galleries in New York City on January 18, and will be on exhibit through March 1.
Frederic Edwin Church: Romantic Landscapes and Seascapes will feature approximately 35 paintings offering viewers a sampling of Church’s creative production from the beginning of his career to its end. A veritable illustrated travelogue showing scenes from New York and New England to Central and South America (he was the first notable artist to visit the continent), from the Holy Land to Greece, landscape lovers will be able to travel back in time with the artist and see the places he enjoyed so much.
Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and gained fame for his monumental canvases of some of nature’s most awe-inspiring locales. Taught in Catskill, New York, by Hudson River School master Thomas Cole (1801-1848), he traveled broadly, absorbing subject matter that he made spellbinding on canvas with his extraordinary facility with brush and palette. His paintings are marked by panoramic views, closely observed detail, and careful attention to the effects of light and weather.
If you admire the exhibit, be sure to take a close look at the catalogue that accompanies it, designed by village resident Maria Miller, one of the most recognized designers in her field. (Read more about Maria Miller's work here.)
The majority of the works to be shown are on loan from private collectors whose works are rarely on public display, as well as from museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, among others.
For more details about this current exhibit, visit www.adelsongalleries.com
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