Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was an American artist connected to the Hudson River School, a group of artists who loved to capture the natural beauty in the United States. Church combined a romantic point of view with great attention to detail in his works. But Church looked further than his own country, making trips to Ecuador, Europe, and the Middle East, providing him with plenty of inspiration for the rest of his life. The paintings I selected here are all in vertical (portrait) format,

We’re traveling to the tropics today as we take a closer look at Frederic Edwin Church’s paintings in gallery 67 on the Main Floor of the West Building, “Tamaca Palms” (1854) and “El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)” (1877), with chief curator Franklin Kelly. Read more about Church in a free PDF of the catalog for our 1989 exhibition on Church, organized by Kelly: go.usa.gov/xvmcM Follow along each day during our temporary closure as we take you on a tour, gallery by gallery. These videos were fi

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) - American Landscape Painter

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