Frederic Edwin Church
1826–1900 · 8 works
Frederic Edwin Church transformed travel and close observation into expansive landscape paintings. A pupil of Thomas Cole, he visited South America with the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt’s writings in mind, studying how plants, terrain, and climate formed an interconnected world. Finished paintings brought selected observations together in the studio. Their dramatic light and enormous distances offered viewers both spectacle and ideas about nature’s power. View of Cotopaxi is one example: the Ecuadorian volcano becomes the center of a composed vision, shaped by the scientific, religious, and political outlooks of his time.
8 works · 1847–1879
In View of Cotopaxi, follow the route from the nearest plants toward the volcano. How many changes of scale does the painting contain?
1847–1860 · 5 works
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1871–1879 · 3 works
Walk these 3
Albert Bierstadt
Mountain Brook, 1863
Asher Brown Durand
The Honourable William Paulding, 1826
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Cows in a Pond at Sunset, 1860
