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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana

Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana

Trebilcock, Evelyn D.
Balint, Valerie
Howat, John K.

Hardcover

Series: Olana Collection

Individual Artists

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0801448433
ISBN13: 9780801448430
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Aug 15 2009
Pages: 96
Weight: 1.56
Height: 0.56 Width: 9.82 Depth: 9.88
Language: English

The site is the result of a careful study of the river-banks, and commands so many views of varied beauty, that all the glories of the Hudson may be said to circle it.--H. W. French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 1879

In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name. The exhibition and its accompanying publication Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana mark the quadricentennial of his discovery by highlighting Frederic Church's sketches of the prospect from his hilltop home overlooking the river. Church made his first sketch of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains from Red Hill--the south end of the property that became his home, Olana--in 1845, on a sketching expedition suggested by his teacher Thomas Cole. Returning to the Hudson Valley in 1860 as the nation's most famous and best-paid artist, Church settled on a farm on the lower slope of the Sienghenbergh, securing for himself and his new wife a splendid vantage point for studying, sketching, and painting the river.

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