Intro to Modern Art History
Church, Frederic Edwin - Rainy Season in the Tr...
Frederic Edward Church didn't just paint a wet jungle. He built a seven-foot hallucination to reclaim his crown. With America...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - Niagara (1857)
In 1857 Frederic Edward Church dragged America to the edge of Niagara Falls and told them to look down. He...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - New England Scenery (...
Church engineered a magnificent lie by stitching together fragments of the American wild. He sold this fabricated myth of Manifest...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - Morning in the Tropics...
Frederic Edward Church didn't paint the jungle because he was standing in it. He painted it because arthritis was destroying...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - Morning in the Tropics...
Frederic Edwin Church did not paint for the high-minded critics. He dragged himself through the Ecuadorian mud to capture the...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - Mount Katahdin from Mi...
Frederic Edwin Church spent his career painting giant spectacles for screaming crowds. Then arthritis destroyed his right hand. He didn't...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - July Sunset (1847)
At twenty-one, Frederic Edwin Church focused on trapping the divine in oil paint rather than rendering every leaf. July Sunset...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - Jerusalem from the Mo...
Frederic Edwin Church fled to the desert after burying his children. He built a glowing fortress of light on canvas...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - The Icebergs (1861)
Frederic Church chased freezing spray in Newfoundland to paint giant frozen monsters. He dropped a massive nine-foot canvas of icy...
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Church, Frederic Edwin - The Heart of the Andes...
In 1859, Frederic Edwin Church charged New Yorkers a quarter to stare through a fake window at a synthetic Ecuador....
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