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This is the largest project thus far undertaken on Frederic Edwin Church:a comprehensive scholarly catalogue of his works of art still at Olana State Historical Site, his former home in upstate New York. Divided into sixteen chronological sections, it covers 736 drawings, paintings, and prints, spanning nearly sixty years of his life.The items, each of them illustrated in the catalogue, range from doodles in his schoolboy textbooks and exercise books, to student works done under Thomas Cole, to important studio paintings exhibited during Church's lifetime, and pencil sketches and finished paintings executed in Mexico as late as two years before his death in April 1900. The holdings are most concentrated at the beginning of Church's career, between 1844 and 1850, and toward the end, between 1880 and 1898, but all phases of his travels and his art are represented, including preparations for his major studio paintings. ... Read more

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Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in. Northern Europe gave rise to both the wide, atmospheric spaces of Brueghel's morality tales and to the moody, dramatic depictions of nature found in Jacob Ruisdael's canvases. The 18th century produced idyllic landscapes like Lorrain's that were heavily influenced by courtly ideals, as well as heroic typographies from the New World by Heade and Church. Constable's and Courbet's scenes revealed a conscious, realistic return to nature, while Monet painted her in all her light-infused, impressionistic glory. Thick swirls of emotional isolation and individualism wind around the fields and night skies of Van Gogh's canvases while colorful patterns delineate the Tahitian waters and beaches where Gauguin searched for purity. Outstanding works by Watteau, Canaletto, Picasso, Nolde, and Kirchner cover even more ground. More than 500 years of landscape paintings create the territories that wind their way through this lushly illustrated book, reflecting changes in the way landscapes have been depicted but also understood, as places we not only live in and colonize but also dream about, abandon, transform, and return to--and as places that exist without us as well. ... Read more

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Title: Clip & save art notes.(Frederic Edwin Church)
Author: Guy Hubbard
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 139Issue: 2Page: 25(3)

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Beautiful four-color paintings and illustrations!Olana was the home of Frederic Church, a student of Thomas Cole and a major figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting.Called by Church "the center of the world," Olana's Perrsian-style house and romantically-designed grounds are a "perfect Eden of picturesque beauty." ... Read more

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Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest "Great Picture" -- a painting titled The North. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this unexpected setback, Church added a broken mast to the foreground and changed the work's title to The Icebergs. He then shipped the painting to London, where it was finally sold to an English railroad magnate and subsequently disappeared from view for 116 years.

This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of The Icebergs and provides a detailed look at the cycle of fame, neglect, and resuscitation of both this masterwork and Church's career. In 1979, The Icebergs sold at auction for $2.5 million, at the time the highest amount ever paid for an American painting. The sale coincided with an upswing in the popularity and acclaim accorded to American landscape painting, catalyzing the market for American art and contributing to a revival in the prestige of Church and the Hudson River School. Drawing on extensive interviews with many of the people involved with the painting's rediscovery, sale, and eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, the author considers the way marketing has defined The Icebergs.

This book accompanies an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art from September 8, 2002 until January 15, 2003. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

The Voyage of the Icebergs:Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece
This is a truly amazing piece of art.To truly appreciate it you need to see it in person as one can sit for hours in front of it.But it's story is also amazing - laying hidden away for decades.Forgotten.Love the art.Love the book.If you love American art, this is a must have book.And if you are ever in Dallas, please go see it in person at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Just the icebergs
If you want to know about Fredric Church's Iceberg paintings, this is the book.Other than a little background on the artist, this doesn't say much about anything else.Almost every page has excellent color prints. ... Read more

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Frederic Church (1826-1900), who gained international renown forpaintings such as Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Twilight in theWilderness (1860), and The Icebergs (1861), was inspired by his extensive traveland study. His work was also informed by his appreciation of a new visualmedium. Fire & Ice, a selection from the several thousand photographs anddaguerreotypes Church collected at Olana, his Orientalist home on the HudsonRiver, provides insight into the interests and taste of one of nineteenth- century America's greatest painters.

Church was a boy of thirteen when the invention of photography was announced tothe world. As a painter, he was of the first generation to grow up withphotographs and consider them a useful adjunct to his work. Church collectedphotographs and daguerreotypes by early pioneers of the art, including DésiréCharnay, Eadweard Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins. His collection appears tohave served largely as a source of inspiration and armchair travel, remindinghim of favorite locations and details of architecture, culture, and landscape.

In Fire & Ice, images from Church's collection are shown along with a selectionof his own oil sketches, drawings, and archival materials. Some of thephotographs are devoted to the varied geographical interests reflected inChurch's art and travels: Central and South America, the Middle East, and thepolar North. Others served as visual reference for the design and constructionof Olana. Lavishly illustrated, Fire and Ice shows how the photographs inChurch's collection echoed the principal stages of the painter's career. ... Read more