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Frederic Edwin Church

[American Hudson River School Painter, 1826-1900]

• Relationships: Not to be confused with the painter and illustrator Frederick Stuart Church.
Studied under Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Landscapes.
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Original works by Frederic Edwin Church available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
View of Cotopaxi

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
In the Andes, 1878

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
The Icebergs, 1861

Frederic Edwin Church at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 paintings online

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

Frederic Edwin Church at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
3 paintings by Frederic Edwin Church online

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Frederic Edwin Church at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Frederic Edwin Church

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1870 (Zoom)

Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York
Former home of Frederic Edwin Church, now a museum

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
New England Landscape

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
8 works

Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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The Falls of Tequendama, Near Bogota, New Granada

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Sister Wendy on Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Twilight in the Wilderness
Storm in the Mountains
Niagara Falls by Moonlight


Colby College Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
View from Olana in the Snow

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City
3 works from the exhibition Tourism and the American Landscape

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Niagara, 1857
Tamaca Palms, 1854

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!
South American Landscape, 1856

Delaware Art Museum
South American Landscape

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Frederic Edwin Church in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts
The Fountain

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 1883

National Academy of Design, New York City
Scene on the Magdalene, 1854

New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
West Rock, New Haven, 1849

New-York Historical Society
Cayambe, 1858

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Pinchincha

Portland Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Cotopaxi, Ecuador (detail)

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Ruins at Baalbek, 1868

Frederic Edwin Church at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Frederic Edwin Church at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"

Tacoma Art Museum, Washington

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Our Banner in the Sky, 1861
The Iceberg, ca.1875

The Huntington Library, California
Chimborazo, 1864

The Parthenon, Tennessee
The Wreck

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Virtual Museum of Canada
Aurora Borealis, 1865

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Coast Scene, Mount Desert (Sunrise off the Maine Coast)

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Frederic Edwin Church in the Art Renewal Center

Frederic Edwin Church in the Artchive  

CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

ImageNETion

The Athenaeum  
178 works online by Church

 
Other Web Sites:
The Art and Architectural Trust, UK
A detailed analysis of Church's 1857 painting, Rocky Forest Pool

University of Virginia Digital Collections
Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frederic Edwin Church
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Resource Library Magazine
The Icebergs, 1861

  
 
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Church: Iceberg, 1891
Iceberg, 1891

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