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| Frederic Edwin Church
American 1826 -1900
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| Born: |
Hartford Connecticut
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| Died: |
New York New York
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| Active: |
New York New York 1848
South America 1853
Europe 1867
New York 1877-on
Mt. Katahdin Maine 1877-on
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| Addresses: |
New York New York
Hudson River New York 1870s Residence
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| Instructors: |
Benjamin Hutchins Coe Hartford
Alexander Hamilton Emmons Hartford
Thomas Cole Catskill, NY, 1844-1846
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| Exhibited: |
National Academy of Design often from 1845-on
Brooklyn Art Association 1861-1874
American Art Union 1847-1852
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1851-1867
Bloomfield, Steel, & Co. 1859
Paris Exposition 1867
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1900
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1988
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| Examples of Work: |
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Reading Public Museum and Gallery, Pennsylvania
Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Instructor
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| Style/School: |
Hudson River School
White Mountains
Realism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1848; NA 1849
Century Association
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
Frederic Edwin Church was one of the most famous landscapists of the two continents in the 1850s and 1860s. His huge canvases are extravaganzas of nature in its extremes, painted with scientific exactitude. At their best, they are marvelous weddings of light, form and detail.
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