Twilight, A Sketch, Signed lower center: F. E. Church, and dated -58, Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Oil on canvas, relined, 1858. 17 ⅞" x 21 ⅞" x 4" (framed)

PRINCETON, NJ.- Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church, featuring eighteen paintings never before exhibited together outside the artist’s Hudson Valley estate, are on view at the Princeton University Art Museum. Recognized as a leading member of the important group of American landscape painters known as the Hudson River School, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) is renowned for majestic landscape paintings rendered with extraordinary precision. Most of the paintings in this exhibition, however, are intimate and more freely rendered oil sketches illustrating Church’s favorite domestic landscapes, natural phenomena, and exotic travels. These works are selected from Church’s personal collection and will be on view through June 10, 2007. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19609