Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World
Categories: Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World (2026) by Victoria Johnson is a biography of the 19th-century American landscape painter. Johnson follows Church from his birth in Hartford in 1826 and his apprenticeship with Thomas Cole to his success in New York and Europe. Using his letters and diaries and retracing his journeys abroad, she examines paintings such as Niagara and The Heart of the Andes and his role in founding the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- Martha Stewart: “Victoria just published a most wonderful book about the extraordinary American painter Frederic Church”