Cloudy Skies
1826-1900
American painter. He was a leading representative of the second generation of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, who made an important contribution to American landscape painting in the 1850s and 1860s. The son of a wealthy and prominent businessman, he studied briefly in Hartford with two local artists, Alexander Hamilton Emmons (1816-84) and Benjamin Hutchins Coe (1799-1883). Thanks to the influence of the Hartford patron DANIEL WADSWORTH, in 1844 he became the first pupil accepted by Thomas Cole. mk48
August 1865
Brush and oil pain,graphite traces on thin paperboard
10 1/8x12in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsoniam Institution,Gift of Louis P.Church
Painting ID:: 26232
Frederic E.Church 1826-1900
American painter. He was a leading representative of the second generation of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, who made an important contribution to American landscape painting in the 1850s and 1860s. The son of a wealthy and prominent businessman, he studied briefly in Hartford with two local artists, Alexander Hamilton Emmons (1816-84) and Benjamin Hutchins Coe (1799-1883). Thanks to the influence of the Hartford patron DANIEL WADSWORTH, in 1844 he became the first pupil accepted by Thomas Cole. Cloudy Skies mk48
August 1865
Brush and oil pain,graphite traces on thin paperboard
10 1/8x12in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsoniam Institution,Gift of Louis P.Church
