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Church, Frederick Edwin
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Church, Frederick Edwin (1826–1900)

US painter. He was a student of Thomas Cole and follower of the Hudson River School's tradition of grand landscape. During the 1850s he visited South America and the Arctic and became known for his meticulous and dramatic depictions of exotic landscapes.

He is known for his portrayal of light, as in Heart of the Andes 1855 and Niagara Falls 1857.



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But unlike these younger, more urbanized artists, whose influences tend toward the Pop-ish and faux outsider, Brophy sinks his foundations into painting's historical loam, tapping unfashionable veins of German Romanticism, Renaissance portraiture, and the landscape paintings of Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church.
Michael Brophy: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University by Raymond, Jonathan / Artforum International
For Handleman, Kinkade is the bastard grandchild of nineteenth-century American landscape painters like Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Asher B.
Marc Handelman: Lombard-Freid Fine Arts by Rosenberg, Karen / Artforum International
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