Frederic Edwin Church: The Visionary Who Turned the World Into a Landscape

Subscribe If the Hudson River School had a virtuoso, a painter whose ambition stretched as wide as his canvases, it was Frederic Edwin Church. Where Thomas Cole offered philosophy and Asher Durand offered intimacy, Church offered something else entirely:spectacle with purpose. He didn’t merely paint landscapes — he painted epics: volcanoes glowing like open furnaces, […]