I tried painting a study yesterday of a portion of The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church. It went....eh....EH!
It helped a little when I read today that he spent 6 months painting the original.
Still though, my painting abilities need a lot of work.
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The sky in *Twilight in the Wilderness* bleeds crimson into gold, its molten hues reflected in the still water below. Church’s layered brushwork transforms a Maine sunset into a premonition of national rupture—does the horizon’s glow feel like dawn or warning?
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✧ Frederic Edwin Church ✧
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter who was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Church was best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. His ...
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Church captures that moment when water and sky blur into colour and quiet brilliance. The River of Light feels timeless, deep, and somehow luminous… like the calm after a long day, seen just right. 🌅✨
👉 The River of Light (1877) – Frederic Edwin Church
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-river-of-light-1877-frederic-edwin-church-1826-1900.html
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« Alpine Scene In Thunderstorm » by Frederic Edwin Church
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/765430302410735616/alpine-scene-in-thunderstorm-by-frederic-edwin
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« Sunrise » by Frederic Edwin Church
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/723125724556476416/sunrise-by-frederic-edwin-church
#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #FredericEdwinChurch #sunrise #sunlight #light
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"A Passing Storm," Frederic Edwin Church, 1849.
Church (1826-1900) was one of the great American landscape painters and a central figure of the Hudson River School.
Church was a great realist but also infused his work with his religious faith, driving home a wonder of the glories of creation. He depicted a number of natural wonders, like waterfalls, glaciers, and volcanoes, but also doing things on a epic scale and making them emotionally affecting with his use of light.
He wasn't content with simply depicting American scenes...he traveled around the world, painting the Andes, rain forests, Mexican scenes, the Middle East, and Europe.
Interest in his work faded and by his death he was almost forgotten, but in the 1960s interest rose again. His home in Hudson, NY, was turned into a state historic site, and museums began to collect and display his work, now seen as emblematic of the optimism of 19th century America.
Let us be optimistic in the face of passing storms!
From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
#Art #AmericanArt #Landscape #Storm #FredericEdwinChurch #Optimism
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Today in #Connecticut History, May 4: Landscape Art for an Industrializing Country
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#19thcentury #americanarthistory #arts #charteroak #connecticutartists #connecticuthistory #CThistory #danieldwadsworth #fredericchurch #fredericedwinchurch #hudsonriverschool #may #newhaven #popularculture #thomascole
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Frederic Edwin Church, Alpine Lake, Bavaria or Switzerland, 1868 #openaccess #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22843
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Frederic Edwin Church, Landscape View From El Bordo On The Rio Patia Guachicona Valley Between Popayan and Pasto, Colombia, August 13, 1853 #fredericedwinchurch #museumarchive http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23919
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Frederic Edwin Church, Shrine, Bavaria, July 1868 #museumarchive #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22959
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Frederic Edwin Church, Fallen Column of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, April 1869 #fredericedwinchurch #chndm https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23291
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Frederic Edwin Church, Summer landscape, 1870–80 #museumarchive #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23728
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Frederic Edwin Church, Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece, April 1869 #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22894
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Frederic Edwin Church, The Niagara Falls, September or October 1856 #fredericedwinchurch #cooperhewittdesignmuseum https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23520
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Frederic Edwin Church, Twelve Figure Sketches, Joffa, Palestine, 1868 #fredericedwinchurch #chndm https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23761
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Frederic Edwin Church, The Koenigsee, near Berchtesgeden, Bavaria, 1868 #museumarchive #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23268
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Frederic Edwin Church, Rocky Coast, Grand Manan, Canada, August 1851 #museumarchive #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22660
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Frederic Edwin Church, St. Peter's Basilica from the Pincio, Rome, late 1868 or early 1869 #fredericedwinchurch #cooperhewittdesignmuseum http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23350
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Frederic Edwin Church, Mount Pichincha from Chillo, Ecuador, June 26, 1857 #chndm #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22404
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Frederic Edwin Church, Alpine Landscape (Bavaria or Switzerland), 1868 #fredericedwinchurch #cooperhewittdesignmuseum https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22820
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Frederic Edwin Church, Narrow Mountain Valley with Cascading Stream Near Ysapan, Ecuador, July 12, 1857 #fredericedwinchurch #openaccess https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22762
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Frederic Edwin Church, Autumn Landscape, Vermont, 1865–70 #openaccess #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23501
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Frederic Edwin Church, The Goell and Watzmann, near Berchtesgeden, 1868 #openaccess #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23299
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Frederic Edwin Church, Trees, Grand Manan Island, Canada, 1851 #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22825
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Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara River Gorge, 1856 or 1858 #museumarchive #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22662
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Frederic Edwin Church, Laborador, Big Island, Battle Harbor, 1859 #museumarchive #fredericedwinchurch https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23398
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Frederic Edwin Church, Floating Icebergs, July 7, 1859 #fredericedwinchurch #openaccess http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22811
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Tequendama Falls, Near Bogota, New Granada, 1854 #luminism #fredericedwinchurch https://www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-edwin-church/tequendama-falls-near-bogota-new-granada-1854
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Frederic Edwin Church, Study of Fern, Jamaica, August 1865 #fredericedwinchurch #museumarchive https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23446
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Today in #Connecticut History, March 22: Seeing Connecticut in a Completely Different Light
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Frederic Edwin Church, Rocks and Moss Off Grand Manan, 1851–52 #fredericedwinchurch #openaccess https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23633
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Natural Bridge, Virginia
“The Natural bridge, the most sublime of Nature’s works, [...] is on the ascent of a hill, which seems to have been cloven through its length by some great convulsion. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781The Natural Bridge, located in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia's Valley and Ridge, stands as testament to the slowly erosive power of water, the solubility of limestone, and the vastness of geologic time. Some 500 million years ago, the area was an ancient shallow sea called Iapetus, home to organisms whose calcium carbonate shells and other deposits collected slowly on the sea floor. Compacted and cemented over the eons, they eventually formed the thick horizontal limestone strata found in Virginia today.
Because rain water is slightly acidic it slowly dissolves limestone. Seeping in through cracks and crevices and dissolving the rock as it goes, the water eventually forms an underground river. As the river carved further down into the earth, the sides of the cavern steepened and the top gradually eroded its way upstream leaving only the beautiful arch at Natural Bridge.
Some day it too will be gone, but in August of 1767, Thomas Jefferson was enraptured by his first glimpse of the Natural Bridge. Jefferson purchased the tract of land that Natural Bridge was located on in 1774 from King George III. Jefferson wrote that, "I view it in some degree as a public trust, and would on no consideration permit the bridge to be injured, defaced, or masked from public view."
During the time the Natural Bridge was in Jefferson's care, it became an international tourist attraction, and an inspiration for many great artists including Frederic Edwin Church who painted the Bridge in 1852 shown below. The bridge was even immortalized in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, who described the breaching of the whale as; “...for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia’s Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded, and went out of sight.”
Today the Natural Bridge is one of the oldest tourist destinations in the United States. The Natural Bridge and surrounding areas have been designated a National Historic Landmark, a Virginia Historic Landmark, managed by the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund, a nonprofit devoted to conservation, education, and recreation. Natural Bridge consists of over 1600 acres of wildlife habitat, streams, and caves that are home to hundreds of wildlife species, rare bats, invertebrates, and unusual communities of plants. They write that "The property will be preserved and restored wherever possible before donation of the property to the Virginia State Parks system."
Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Edwin_Church_-_The_Natural_Bridge,_Virginia.jpg
Photo from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_(Virginia)
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Tequendama Falls, Near Bogota, New Granada, 1854 #church #fredericedwinchurch https://www.wikiart.org/en/frederic-edwin-church/tequendama-falls-near-bogota-new-granada-1854
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Frederic Edwin Church, Church's Farm, Hudson, New York, 1870–80 #fredericedwinchurch #openaccess https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/23192
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Frederic Edwin Church, Woman drinking, wine bottles, recto; Shopping List for Mount Katahdin Climb, verso, Fall 1878? #fredericedwinchurch #openaccess https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22315