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Frederic Church

After Icebergs: A NY Artist’s 1859 Arctic Adventure

February 25, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

after icebergs with a painterThe new edition of After Icebergs with a Painter A Summer Voyage to Labrador and around Newfoundland (Black Dome Press, 2022), by Louis Legrand Noble with an introduction by William L. Coleman, looks at an internationally renowned American artist of fame and fortune at the very peak of his powers.

A pastor and lauded writer with a sharp eye for revealing and humorous detail, Noble describes a journey fraught with danger and drama aboard the schooner Integrity to the latitudes where icebergs dwell with Hudson River School painter Frederic Church. [Read more…] about After Icebergs: A NY Artist’s 1859 Arctic Adventure

Filed Under: Books, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature Tagged With: Art History, Bard College, Books, Catskills, Climate Change, Environmental History, Frederic Church, Hudson River School, ice, Lisbon, Maritime Art, Maritime History, Olana State Historic Site, painting, St Lawrence County

$25M in Improvements Planned for Olana State Historic Site

December 19, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Frederic Church Center, View from Lakeside Terrace to WestOlana State Historic Site will undergo a $25 million site improvement project over the next two years, including construction of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, a new entry and orientation facility at the historic site in Hudson, Columbia County.

The sustainably designed, all-electric Frederic Church Center will be a gateway to all visitors to Olana State Historic Site [Read more…] about $25M in Improvements Planned for Olana State Historic Site

Filed Under: Arts, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Art History, Columbia County, Frederic Church, Hudson, Olana State Historic Site

Exhibit: Frederic Church’s Summer House at Olana

August 12, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

olanas summer houseDavid McAlpin, a principal at Fradkin & McAlpin Architects, is among a group of 21 noted architects and landscape architects, including Steven Holl, Laurie D. Olin, Peter Pennoyer and Diana Balmori, who have been invited to solve a mystery that is more than 130 years old.

Each was asked to submit a design for “the Summer House” at Olana, the Hudson, New York, estate of the great American landscape artist Frederic Church. [Read more…] about Exhibit: Frederic Church’s Summer House at Olana

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New Exhibits Tagged With: Architecture, Frederic Church, Olana State Historic Site

Albany Artist Walter Launt Palmer: A Short Biography

April 13, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

image008Artist Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932), the son of Albany sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, enjoyed a revival of interest in the art world in the 2010s. It became common to see his paintings in art magazines and at major auctions across the country, bringing record prices for his oils and watercolors.

As an artist who preferred living and working in his home community of Albany, rather than New York City, Palmer carried forward the creative genius that emerged in the region generations earlier with the Hudson River School and his father’s own sculpture. [Read more…] about Albany Artist Walter Launt Palmer: A Short Biography

Filed Under: History, Arts, Capital-Saratoga Tagged With: Albany, Albany Institute For History and Art, Art History, Frederic Church, Hudson River School, painting, winter

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