An exhibition at Frederic Church’s Olana highlights the nineteenth-century culture of memory and memorial.
Current and coming: Making Icebergs at Olana
Olana—the historic estate of Hudson River school artist Frederic Edwin Church, with its faux-Persian mansion surrounded by a landscape devised by the painter as a living work of art—is hosting winter art exhibitions for the first time…
Hummingbirds on the Hudson
A traveling exhibition explores the influence of the Hudson River school—notably the Brazilian bird portraits of Martin Johnson Heade—on contemporary artists
Openings and Closings: June 2 to June 8
Check out what’s going on at museums at home and abroad!
Frederic Church’s Olana on the Hudson
“Almost an hour this side of Albany is the Center of the World,” wrote Frederic Edwin Church (1826– 1900) to his friend sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He added: “I own it.” Church, preeminent among the Hudson River school painters, was referring to Olana, his magnificent “Persian” style mansion and the surrounding 250 mountaintop acres of landscape he subtly designed.
Great Estates: Frederic Church’s Olana in Hudson, New York
Our upcoming June issue features a number of exhibitions and events that mark the 100th anniversary of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration (and the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson voyage up the eponymous river). Among them is a new exhibition at Olana, the estate of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church, Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church’s Views from Olana, which was …