**The 19th-Century Blockbuster: Frederic Edwin Church’s “Niagara”**

In 1857 Frederic Edwin Church revealed his seven-foot-wide painting *Niagara*. The one-picture exhibition was a sensation, cementing Church as the most important American artist of his day. Long before box office hits or record-breaking art shows, *Niagara’s* exhibition became the blockbuster of its day, changing the nation’s art and culture in the process.

https://www.nga.gov/stories/19th-century-blockbuster.html #ArtHistory #histodons #HudsonRiverSchool

"Among those works is a trompe l’oeil sculpture by Anna Plesset, depicting a subtly altered art catalogue for a landmark exhibition of #HudsonRiverSchool artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “American Paradise (Second Edition)” depicts the title pages of that book with one of Barstow’s landscapes included as the frontispiece.

In fact, the 1987 exhibition included no work by any woman artist."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2023/07/24/susie-barstow-thomas-cole-house/

#Women #Art #Artist #Landscape #Museum #Misogyny #USA #News

Today in #Connecticut History, May 4: Landscape Art for an Industrializing Country

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/05/04/may-4-landscape-art-for-an-industrializing-america/

#19thcentury #americanarthistory #arts #charteroak #connecticutartists #connecticuthistory #CThistory #danieldwadsworth #fredericchurch #fredericedwinchurch #hudsonriverschool #may #newhaven #popularculture #thomascole

#sunset over the #catskills. Many colored sky loved by the #HudsonRiverSchool.

"Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy," Frederic Edwin Church, 1852.

Such a dramatic sunset! Such dramatic rocks! Church was a central figure of the Hudson River School & at one point the most popular painter in America, and it's easy to see why. Simply gorgeous.

From the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

#art #HudsonRiverSchool #Sunset #GrandMananIsland