Glories of the Hudson

Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana

Evelyn D. Trebilcock, Valerie Balint, John K. Howat , Kenneth John Myers

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Cornell University Press
15 August 2009

Series: The Olana Collection

"""The site is the result of a careful study of the river-banks, and commands so many views of varied beauty, that all the glories of the Hudson may be said to circle it.""-H. W. French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 1879

In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name. The exhibition and its accompanying publication Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana mark the quadricentennial of his discovery by highlighting Frederic Church's sketches of the prospect from his hilltop home overlooking the river. Church made his first sketch of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains from Red Hill-the south end of the property that became his home, Olana-in 1845, on a sketching expedition suggested by his teacher Thomas Cole. Returning to the Hudson Valley in 1860 as the nation's most famous and best-paid artist, Church settled on a farm on the lower slope of the Sienghenbergh, securing for himself and his new wife a splendid vantage point for studying, sketching, and painting the river. Church continued to add land to his property, attaining new and varied vistas of the river, and crowned the estate with a Persian-inspired house designed to frame splendid views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains. Church never tired of his views of the river, documenting his passion for the Hudson in paintings, oil sketches, and drawings. From Olana, he observed the transformations wrought by the changing seasons, weather, and light, capturing chilly winter snows, brilliant sunsets, and passing storms in sketches executed with a few brushstrokes or autumn colors and clear winter light in more finished easel paintings. The best of these are reproduced here, in eighty-three illustrations, sixty-nine in full color, some of them published for the first time. The essay by Evelyn D. Trebilcock and Valerie A. Balint, the introduction by Kenneth John Myers, and the foreword by John K. Howat together provide an absorbing narrative of the development of the Hudson River School and its most successful artist. The Olana Partnership, Hudson, New York, and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Albany, New York, organized Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana, held from May 23 to October 12, 2009"

By: Evelyn D. Trebilcock, Valerie Balint
Foreword by: John K. Howat
Other: Kenneth John Myers, John K. Howat
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 254mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780801448430
ISBN 10: 0801448433
Series: The Olana Collection
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 15 August 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evelyn D. Trebilcock is Curator of Olana. She lectures frequently on Olana, Frederic Church, and Church at Olana and has published an essay in The Hudson Valley: Our Heritage, Our Future and the foreword to Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art. Valerie A. Balint is Associate Curator of Olana. Prior to joining Olana, she worked at Chesterwood, the home of the sculptor Daniel Chester French, and the Frelinghuysen-Morris Foundation, the home of abstract artists Suzy Frelinghuysen and George L. K. Morris. Kenneth John Myers is Curator and department head of American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has published several books, including Mr. Whistler's Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition and The Catskills: Painters, Writers, and Tourists in the Mountains, 1820–1895. John K. Howat is Curator Emeritus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was formerly Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the Department of American Art. He is author of several books, including the seminal biography Frederic Church.