Hardcover
2007 · New York
by Carr, Gerald L.
New York: Adelson Galleries, 2007. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Maroon cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover along with decoration on latter, decorated flyleaves, color illus. dust jacket, 136 pp., Issued in conjunction with 2007-2008 exhibitions featuring select works by Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). "Offers a rich sampling of the artist's five decades of creative production. The works in the exhibition ... constitute a veritable travelogue of the places Church visited over the course of his illustrious career, including much of New York State and New England, Labrador, Central and South America, Greece, Turkey, and the Holy Land." (dj) A lovely variety, and a nice book to hold in one's hands. "This catalogue, published to accompany a major exhibition of notable landscapes and seascapes by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) at Adelson Galleries and Meredith Long & Company, offers a rich sampling of the artist's five decades of creative production. The works in the exhibition, reproduced here in full color, constitute a veritable travelogue of the places Church visited over the course of his illustrious career, including much of New York State and New England, Labrador, Central and South America, Greece, Turkey, and the Holy Land. Among the paintings presented are some major canvases and oil sketches from private collections that have rarely been on public view."--Jacket. Read less.
(Inventory #: 137289)