Frederic

Edwin Church

May 4, 1826
April 7, 1900
 Frederic Edwin
Church was an
American landscape
painter, best known
for painting large
landscapes, often
depicting mountains,
waterfalls, and
New England Scenery (1851) sunsets.
 Church was a vital
figure in the movement in
American painting known
as the Hudson River
School, and in the
development of Western
landscape painting more
generally, and his work
epitomizes all the
contradictions of the culture
 One of his famous oil-paintings is Autumn(1875) .Autumn depicts a bend in the river
with the changing hues of the season. A warm, misty background light suffuses the
entire scene, which is framed by a large tree on the left and a single rock on the right
bank. The vegetation that covers the rocks and tree trunks ranges in tone from green to
This art belongs to the
romantic style. Here the
light is the central feature of
the composition. Should be
considered  Church’s
growing interest in capturing
the effects of light and
atmospheric changes, which
stemmed from his study of
the same scientific treatises
used by his Impressionist
contemporaries.
 Autumn was painted for
his great friend William Henry
Osborn (1820‒1894), the
owner of Castle Rock. Church
and Osborn shared the same
enthusiasm for the autumn
colours, as borne out by the
letter the painter wrote to his
friend in autumn 1870: “I can
fancy your enjoyment of the
weather — There is
something peculiarly
  Niagara falls is an oil painting which was Edwin’s most
important work to date, and confirmed his reputation as the
premier American landscape painter of the time. For
Americans, the Falls symbolized the grandeur and
Cotopaxi  is an 1862 oil painting .The painting was met with
great acclaim, and seen as a parable of the Civil War, then
raging in the South, with its casting of light against
darkness. The painting depicts Cotopaxi, a volcano that is
The 1860 Great Meteor procession occurred on July 20, 1860.
It was a unique meteoric phenomenon reported from locations
across the United States. American landscape painter Frederic
Church saw and painted a spectacular string of
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