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Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, and author and coauthor of many books, including Hudson River School Visions, The Civil War and American Art, and The Painted Sketch. Julia Rosenbaum is a professor of art history and faculty of the American Studies Program at Bard, as well as a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. She is the director of research and publications at The Olana Partnership. Karen Zukowski is an art historian specializing in late nineteenth-century American fine and decorative arts. She is a curator at Olana State Historic Site and a member of the board of The Olana Partnership. Larry Lederman is a member of the board of The Olana Partnership and has been photographing landscapes for fifteen years. He is the author of Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden and coauthor of The Rockefeller Family Gardens. His work has been exhibited at the Ross Gallery at NYBG and is included in public and private collections.
While the beauty of Frederic Church's Hudson Valley estate Olana is stunning in person, this book lets the arm-chair visitor experience the paintings, landscape and historic house that were all part of Church's artistic vision. Essays from specialists like a curator, historian and architect explore all aspects of the 19th century artist's work, while reproductions of dozens of his paintings juxtaposed with the views he created in the landscape make clear the grand work he carefully cultivated around him. --Brownstoner
