Frederic Edwin Church
Catalogue Raisonné of Works of Art at Olana State Historic Site

This is the largest project thus far undertaken on Frederic Edwin Church: a comprehensive scholarly catalogue of his works of art still at Olana State Historical Site, his former home in upstate New York. Divided into sixteen chronological sections, it covers 736 drawings, paintings, and prints, spanning nearly sixty years of his life. The items, each of them illustrated in the catalogue, range from doodles in his schoolboy textbooks and exercise books, to student works done under Thomas Cole, to important studio paintings exhibited during Church's lifetime, and pencil sketches and finished paintings executed in Mexico as late as two years before his death in April 1900. The holdings are most concentrated at the beginning of Church's career, between 1844 and 1850, and toward the end, between 1880 and 1898, but all phases of his travels and his art are represented, including preparations for his major studio paintings.

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Product details

• Date Published: June 1994
• format: Hardback
• isbn: 9780521385404
• length: 635 pages

• dimensions: 321 x 243 x 79 mm
• weight: 5.265kg
• contains: 112 b/w illus. 47 colour illus.
• availability: Unavailable - out of print January 2007