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WEBAn ambitious painter, Church was sure he could capture the power and beauty of Niagara Falls. In this view of the sweeping expanse of Horseshoe Falls, Church plunges us directly into the rushing water. His detailed painting combines frothing waves and water sheeting over rock surfaces.
Niagara (Frederic Edwin Church) - Wikipedia
WEBThe third painting, Niagara Falls, from the American Side, was made in 1867 and is the largest of Church's paintings by surface area.
Frederic Edwin Church | Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBChurch’s Niagara was considered the finest landscape painting of its day. Church experimented with the scale and proportions of his canvas and adjusted his focal point to absorb a wide range of terrestrial and atmospheric phenomena that would convey the range of his travels, observations, and insights.
Frederic Edwin Church | Niagara - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBChurch painted this exquisite on-site oil study of the Horseshoe Falls section of Niagara Falls, from the Canadian side, most likely during his trip in August, 1858. In his sweeping panorama, the artist, and by extension the viewer, is positioned in the water, looking up at Horseshoe Falls and the Terrapin Tower, built in 1833 on the brink of ...
Niagara Falls - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBNiagara Falls is one of the most frequently painted and photographed landscapes in the United States. George Inness produced seven oil paintings of the falls during the 1880s and 1890s, more than he made of any other area at that time.
The 19th-Century Blockbuster: Frederic Edwin Church’s “Niagara”
WEBThousands lined up to buy their tickets to see the newest creation of an American visionary. In 1857 Frederic Edwin Church revealed his seven-foot-wide painting Niagara. The one-picture exhibition was a sensation, cementing Church …
Niagara Falls, from the American Side - Wikipedia
WEBNiagara Falls, from the American Side is a painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Completed in 1867, it is based on preliminary sketches made by the artist at Niagara Falls and on a sepia photograph.
Niagara Falls, from the American Side by Frederic Edwin Church ...
WEBChurch's large canvas captures magnificently the drama of Niagara Falls, one of his country's most famous landmarks. This painting, based on a drawing Church made at Niagara in July 1856 and on a sepia photograph touched with colour, was commissioned by the New York art dealer Michael Knoedler in 1866.
Niagara Falls, from the American Side - WikiArt.org
WEBThe painting Niagara Falls, from the American Side was commissioned from Church by the American art dealer Michael Knoedler in 1866. It was the third painting of the series and may have been originally destined for the Exposition.
Niagara Falls - Frederic Edwin Church — Google Arts & Culture
WEBChurch traveled to Niagara Falls in 1856 where he explored numerous viewpoints of the cataracts in his many sketches. This painting is one of only a few self-sufficient studio works completed...