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and public sector sources—to fund our work work our fund sources—to sector public and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation Recreation Parks, of Office State York New

Frames Phillips; Michele Conservator Paper gnantly tell the story of Church’s career from from career Church’s of story the tell gnantly tion in the Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery Gallery Sharp Maurice and Evelyn the in tion

signed landscape, is owned and operated by by operated and owned is landscape, signed

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mains at Olana in the artist’s own collection. collection. own artist’s the in Olana at mains Rally ‘round the Flag: Frederic Edwin Church Church Edwin Frederic Flag: the ‘round Rally Krulik, Loie and Alex Acevedo, and Frederic Frederic and Acevedo, Alex and Loie Krulik,

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the turbulence of the war. The varied artistic artistic varied The war. the of turbulence the we would like to express our appreciation to to appreciation our express to like would we

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one of the countless, faceless young men men young faceless countless, the of one

the conservation, preservation, development development preservation, conservation, the chester. We are grateful to the New York State State York New the to grateful are We chester. of his most important works. Many reflected reflected Many works. important most his of Sharp. For their assistance with these loans loans these with assistance their For Sharp.

Acknowledgements Acknowledgements

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Civil War raged on, Church produced some some produced Church on, raged War Civil (two), Laura and David Grey, and Richard T. T. Richard and Grey, David and Laura (two),

subject of extensive study. The examination examination The study. extensive of subject

York State in the restoration and preservation preservation and restoration the in State York of the war. During the next five years, as the the as years, five next the During war. the of from the private collections of Anonymous Anonymous of collections private the from

very gifted young artist who has yet to be the the be to yet has who artist young gifted very

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for an unprecedented opportunity to view view to opportunity unprecedented an for

Verdigris Art & Tea & Art Verdigris Heritage Area Area Heritage The exhibition features Frederic Church’s Church’s Frederic features exhibition The

Study for “The Heart of the Andes,” 1858 Study for “The Heart allowing exhibition, the for together brought TD Bank TD National Valley River Hudson

the conflict. conflict. the by the public. All the paintings have been been have paintings the All public. the by Richard T. Sharp T. Richard Chas A. Miller III Miller A. Chas

of commemoration national and regional tions, and not usually available for viewing viewing for available usually not and tions, Gary Schiro and Robert Burns Robert and Schiro Gary Miller Jr. Foundation Jr. Miller

Questroyal Fine Art Fine Questroyal A. Charles and H. Lois The is one of the first exhibitions in the multi-year, multi-year, the in exhibitions first the of one is - collec private in are paintings remaining The

The Olana Exhibition Fund Exhibition Olana The Laura and David Grey David and Laura view in the Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery Gallery Sharp Maurice and Evelyn the in view in the Olana collection. collection. Olana the in Landscape including

Henry and Sharon Martin Sharon and Henry The Ann and Arthur Grey Foundation Grey Arthur and Ann The

on on War Civil the and Church Edwin Frederic only a few recognized works known today, today, known works recognized few a only

Museum Program Museum Mr. and Mrs. Brock Ganeles Brock Mrs. and Mr.

Rally ‘Round the Flag: Flag: the ‘Round Rally exhibition: Olana’s and death in Andersonville Prison. There are are There Prison. Andersonville in death and

The New York State Council on the Arts Arts the on Council State York New The Loie and Alex Acevedo Acevedo Alex and Loie

of Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War. War. Civil the of start the and Sumter Fort of ing his brief life, cut short by imprisonment imprisonment by short cut life, brief his ing

2011 marks the Sesquicentennial of the fall fall the of Sesquicentennial the marks 2011 - dur canvases few very completed Jameson by the generous gifts from the following: the from gifts generous the by

Remarks on the Exhibition the on Remarks This brochure and the accompanying exhibition were made possible in part part in possible made were exhibition accompanying the and brochure This

military service. Nonetheless, the painter’s tled Our Banner in the Sky, made into scores conscience, Calvinist piety—and perhaps his of lithographs, one shown here, which sold Rally ‘round the Flag: entrepreneurial spirit—were raised. As the briskly in the months to come. The broadside troops strode past Church’s exhibition venue, for the lithograph is also on view.

Frederic Edwin Church and the Civil War Left: “Under Niagara,” Study for c. September 1858 a Sketch, 1858 Right: Twilight, its title changed from The Icebergs to The Only once more, for a special request from North—a clear allusion to the Union—and its (1862; Detroit Institute of Arts), of the Ecua- families paid with lost kinsmen—to say noth- a private collector, did Church venture any- May 26-October 30, 2011 advertisements began announcing the dona- dorean volcano in eruption. A sketch of the ing of their slain president, Abraham Lincoln, thing so baldly patriotic as Our Banner in The Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery • Olana | Hudson NY tion of all gate receipts to the Patriotic Fund, former and drawings related to the latter are assassinated just days after the Confederate the Sky. Yet his subsequent major landscape newly founded to aid families of the enlisted seen here. surrender in Virginia on April 9. Three weeks paintings can read expressively as a barom- Rally ‘round the Flag: Frederic Edwin Church which he rendered on another vast canvas breadwinners. earlier, Church and his wife had buried both eter of the conflict’s lows and highs. To be The Civil War years also coincided with and the Civil War has been mounted in con- and dubbed, simply, The Icebergs (1861; Dal- their children, victims of diphtheria. Later The war fever of those weeks also prompted sure, if the artist did not literally join the fight, Church’s early married life, marked in late junction with the 150th anniversary of the las Museum of Art). To augment his business, in 1865, he learned that a former acolyte, what must be the most topical “landscape” he suffered war-related losses and privations 1862 and 1864 by the births of a boy and a commencement of America’s bloodiest con- Church began having his major works repro- John S. Jameson, a young artist, musician, Church ever made. Union outrage at the Con- that may be subtly manifest in his paintings. girl, Herbert and Emma. Moreover, the tide flict, the one it fought with itself. Oddly, the duced in black and white or color, such as the and studio neighbor who enlisted in 1864, federate assault on Fort Sumter had been His dear friend and advocate Winthrop fell in of the war began turning decisively for the war coincided with the richest and most suc- lithograph of The Icebergs on view here. died in the notorious Confederate prison stoked by the insult to the nation’s flag, torn the war’s first major land engagement (Big Union after the Battle of Gettysburg in July cessful phase of the career of nineteenth- camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Jameson’s by shell fire even after the white cloth of sur- Bethel, Virginia). His artist colleague Louis 1863, and with it the complexion of the art- century America’s most renowned landscape The New York showing of The Icebergs in mother sent the artist one of her son’s early render went up. In reaction, a massive rally Rémy Mignot, a South Carolinian who joined ist’s major pictures: Chimborazo (1862–64; painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). April 1861 marked the beginning of Church’s landscapes, present in this gallery. In Janu- was held in New York’s Union Square, where Church on his second expedition to Ecuador engagement with the war effort. Just out- Huntington Library, Art Collections and Bo- ary 1867, his beloved sister Charlotte died in the battle-worn Sumter banner was raised in 1857, abandoned the Union for England in Born into the family of an affluent business- side the exhibition gallery on Broadway, tanical Gardens, San Marino, California), of a Hartford, months before Church departed for aloft and indignant crowds waved the Stars 1862. Many of Church’s own farmhands de- man in Hartford, Connecticut, Church culti- newly mustered regiments tramped in pa- massive Andean summit floating above the Europe and the Middle East with Isabel and and Stripes. Weeks later Church dashed off serted his employ to join the cause, which vated inborn sympathies for art and science, rade before cheering crowds down to the jungle like an angelic cloud; Rainy Season their infant son, Frederic, on the artist’s last a celestial vision of a miraculous Union flag looked increasingly dark as unexpected first as the prodigious student of Thomas harbor, where boats and trains bore them to in the Tropics (1863–66; The Fine Arts Muse- great trip abroad. With Scripture in hand, the composed of parallel bars of scarlet clouds, Southern resistance and Northern irresolu- Cole, the founding figure of the Hudson River Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. ums of San Francisco), with its providential Churches sojourned first in the Holy Land; as parting in a corner to reveal a starry firma- tion early in the fight led to multiple Union School, then as a devotee of the writings of Among them were several of the painter’s double rainbow arcing over a mountain- they were leaving there for Europe they con- ment. He developed the image from a series defeats. During this period the artist painted Alexander von Humboldt, a German natu- friends and acquaintances, most especially scape; and its portentous sister-painting, Au- ceived young Frederic’s brother, Theodore of crepuscular portraits, such as Twilight, a two of his most tumultuous or brooding ralist who had explored the equatorial New the ardent young author and attorney Theo- rora Borealis (1864–65); Smithsonian Ameri- Winthrop Church, the namesake of the artist’s Sketch, in this gallery, which he painted in the images, the tsunami-like Under Niagara World at the turn of the nineteenth century. dore Winthrop, who had penned a colorful can Art Museum, Washington, D.C.), with fallen friend, born in Rome in 1869. Arriving 1850s. His picture dealer had the painting, ti- (1862; unlocated) and the fuming Cotopaxi In 1853 and 1857, Church followed Hum- account, displayed here, of a long sketching its eerie iris of ionized air. That picture was home later that year, Church started the hill- boldt’s trail in Colombia and Ecuador. Back excursion he made with Church to Maine painted following several years of the most top citadel to crown his Hudson River prop- in his studio in New York City, he fashioned and later published a descriptive program spectacular and southerly occurrences in the erty, Olana, a fortress for the four children the monumental vistas of jungle, plain, and for The Heart of the Andes. Unlike Winthrop United States of the northern lights, which couple would raise. snowbound mountains, such as The Heart of and other of the enlistees the painter knew, were sometimes interpreted by both sides as — Kevin J. Avery the Andes (1859; The Metropolitan Museum Church was married, and only since the year omens of victory. Displayed here is a drawing of Art, New York), whose small preparatory before, to the beautiful Isabel Carnes. He by the Arctic explorer (and a Church pupil), study is included in this exhibition. At the had just purchased farm property along the Dr. Isaac Hayes, which Church used to com- Kevin J. Avery is a senior research scholar at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and an adjunct professor at Hunter College, City University of New York premier of the work, 12,000 people Hudson River, on which to build a cottage pose the landscape in Aurora Borealis. New York.

flocked to see the dramatically framed and lit for his prospective family. His art-business The exhibition is funded by The Olana Partnership, the not-for-profit Whatever Church intended to convey in those painting. Not content with the natural variety ambitions, not unlike those of the wealthy support arm of Olana State Historic Site. Olana, the Churches’ Persian- renderings of dread and smiling natural fea- inspired home and 250-acre designed landscape, is owned and operated he found at the Equator, in 1859 Church hired manufacturers, merchants, railroad execu- by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. tures and effects, he could not insulate him- See www.olana.org for details. a boat and journeyed to the north Atlan- tives, and financiers who bought his large self from the personal cost that thousands of tic near the Arctic Circle to sketch icebergs, expensive landscape paintings, precluded 1861, oil over chromolithograph, 7 ½ x 11 ¼ inches OL.1976.29 Goupil & Co. after Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, Charles Risdon, after Frederic Edwin Church’s The Icebergs (1861), 1864, oil over chromolithograph