From sweeping landscapes to idealized scenes of the New England countryside, the artwork of Frederic Edwin Church captured ...

Niagara Falls has been called the American Mecca—a natural wonder and famed destination for honeymooners and daredevils alike. The colossal cataract at the border of New York and Ontario was the ...

Frederic Edwin Church, one of the best-known of the Hudson River School painters, got his start as a pupil of Thomas Cole, widely regarded as the father of the school. During Church's first year under ...

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) present A Nation of Artists, a landmark exhibition and collaboration with the private Middleton Family ...

One witness to an 1859 Northern Lights display was the artist Frederic Edwin Church, who later painted Aurora Borealis (above, detail). SAAM, 1911.4.1 In 1859, a record-breaking aurora borealis ...

In the early spring of 1859, shortly before his 33rd birthday, Frederic Edwin Church put his most recent painting, “The Heart of the Andes,” on display in the Tenth Street Studio Building, east of ...

— When Frederic Edwin Church unveiled “The Heart of the Andes” in the spring of 1859, it was not the painting art critics took issue with, but its frame. Church chose to forgo the traditional, ...

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was arguably America’s pre-eminent landscape painter during the decades before and after the Civil War. The pupil and devoted friend of the English-born Thomas Cole ...