Frederic Edwin Church: 7 works

'In 1853, Frederic Edwin Church spent six months traveling in South America. He sought out tropical subjects on the advice of Alexander von Humboldt, the great explorer and natural scientist, whose books were widely read.'

'Here, for example, Frederic Church depicts Cotopaxi, an active volcano in Ecuador.'

'By the mid 1800s, Frederic Church had become a prominent American landscape painter, and was the youngest artist ever elected to the prestigious National Academy of Design.'

'Frederick Edwin Church studied landscape painting under Thomas Cole, a member of the Hudson River School.'

'Frederic Church sketched his first view of Cotopaxi in 1853 on a tour of Columbia and Ecuador. Describing the volcano later, he declared it "one of the most majestic and awe inspiring views I ever beheld in either hemisphere."'

'"Rainy Season in the Tropics" is one of the most celebrated works by the second-generation Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church.'

'Frederic Edwin Church's monumental Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives shows the Holy City embedded in a panoramic landscape under an expansive, cloud-filled sky.'