12/10/2011

Niagara

Niagara

Niagara (1857), Frederic Edwin Chruch, Oil on canvas, in the Collection of The Corcoran Gallery of Art Museum Purchase,Gallery Fund .

Frederic Edwin Chruch (1828-1990), was one of the most celebrated landscape painters of the mid-18th century. His paintings were beautifully detailed and grand in scale. Widely treveled, Chruch was inspired to paint not only the marvels of North America, but also those of South America and other areas of the world.





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