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| Frederic Edwin Church: El Rio De Luz (The River of Light), 1877 Source: Artcyclopedia; photograph by Michael Weinberg
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Frederic Edwin Church Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Frederic Edwin Church available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Frederic Edwin Church at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Cotopaxi, 1855
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1870 (Zoom)
Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York Former home of Frederic Edwin Church, now a museum
Frederic Edwin Church at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains
Amon Carter Museum, Texas New England Landscape
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 8 works
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! The Falls of Tequendama, Near Bogota, New Granada
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine View from Olana in the Snow
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City 3 works from the exhibition Tourism and the American Landscape
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Niagara, 1857 Tamaca Palms, 1854
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire South American Landscape, 1856
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont Otter Creek, Middlebury, Vermont
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City Scene Among the Andes, 1854
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut West Rock, New Haven, 1849
New-York Historical Society Cayambe, 1858
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania Cotopaxi
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Andes of Ecuador, 1855
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Ruins at Baalbek, 1868
Seattle Art Museum
Frederic Edwin Church at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! Our Banner in the Sky, 1861 The Iceberg, ca.1875
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Twilight, "Short Arbiter 'Twixt Day and Night", 1850
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Arch of Titus, 1871
The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee The Wreck, 1852 (Note: Images are generally larger than displayed on the museum's web page. Here is a link to the jpg image.)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Virtual Museum of Canada Aurora Borealis, 1865
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut Coast Scene, Mount Desert (Sunrise off the Maine Coast)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frederic Edwin Church at The Art Renewal Center
Frederic Edwin Church at The Artchive
Frederic Edwin Church at The Athenaeum Numerous works online by Church
Frederic Edwin Church in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Frederic Edwin Church at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Art and Architectural Trust, UK A detailed analysis of Church's 1857 painting, Rocky Forest Pool
University of Virginia Digital Collections Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frederic Edwin Church Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Moses Viewing the Promise Land, 1846
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine "The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church"
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Aurora Borealis, 1865
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine 4 paintings online
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine "Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica" (2010)
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Scene on Catskill Creek, 1847
Resource Library Magazine The Icebergs, 1861
The Art Newspaper (Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size) "Lost" Church painting is found - Evening on the Sea, 1877
The Magazine Antiques The 4th image in the slideshow is Church's Winter Twilight from Olana, 1871-72
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church
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