Frederic Edwin Church, “The Heart of the Andes,” as exhibited at the “Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission,” New York, 1864. Photographer UnknownFrederic Edwin Church, “Heart of the Andes,” 1859, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 760“The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World” by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington, 1848. Courtesy the New Bedford Whaling Museum. View the entire thingDetail from “The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World” by Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington, 1848. Courtesy the New Bedford Whaling Museum. View the entire thing
The Tenth Street Studio building as Frederic Church would have known it, ca. 1875, with architect Richard Morris Hunt standing outside the entrance. Photo: Library of Congress“The Old Sign on Tenth Street” by Edward Lamson Henry, 1877. Collection, National Academy of Design, New York, Gift of the Artist, on election to membershipView from the location of Frederic Church’s first studio, looking out over Inbocht Bay in the Hudson River, with Crown Hill at left.
View from the Olana House of Inbocht Bay and “the bend in the river” (right) and the Olana Lake (left), October 2018A couple enjoys Frederic Church’s composed view of the “bend in the river,” June 2013, 5pmThe “bend in the river” from the Olana bell tower, October 2014An Olana visitor admires the “Bend in the River,” October 2014 Scenic Hudson’s Jeff Anzevino captured the “bend in the river” from an airplane. Image: Jeff Anzevino | Courtesy Scenic Hudson
Architectural and artistic details of the Olana CastleChristmas Day 2024 with a giant a vulture perched on the balustrade of the Crow’s Nest, between the Japanese teapotsThe south-facing façade of the Olana House from New Approach Road, March 2013The gorgeous diversity of windows on the north side of the Olana houseA model of Cleopatra’s Needle made by Tiffany & Co., which Frederic Church kept permanently displayed in his studioThe view across the river from Frederic Church’s studio at OlanaView from the Olana piazza, May 2012This compass rose, installed on the deck of Olana’s piazza, testifies to Church’s fascination with geography and the practice of observationOne of the delights of walking the carriage roads at Olana is glimpses of the house that emerge through the woods
“Fallen” by Jean Chin, an eastern hemlock tree (Tsuga canadensis) planted by Frederic Church that died of natural causes in 2020. Part of the outdoor exhibition “Cross Pollination,” May 2021“Fallen” by Jean Chin, an eastern hemlock tree (Tsuga canadensis) planted by Frederic Church that died of natural causes in 2020. Part of the outdoor exhibition “Cross Pollination,” May 2021The stump of the eastern hemlock tree (Tsuga canadensis) that was planted by Frederic Church and died of natural causes in 2020, March 2025A leather tag on a hemlock tree on Lake Road, part of Jean Shin’s “Mapping Hemlocks” project, May 2021
