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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy     Albany Institute of History & Art     Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College     Amon Carter Museum of American Art     Art Institute of Chicago     Brigham Young University Museum of Art     Brooklyn Museum     The Butler Institute of American Art     Carnegie Museum of Art     The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art     Cincinnati Art Museum     The Cleveland Museum of Art     Colby College Museum of Art     Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College     Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum     Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art     Currier Museum of Art     Dallas Museum of Art     Delaware Art Museum     Detroit Institute of Arts     de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco     Fenimore Art Museum     Florence Griswold Museum     The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia     Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College     Fruitlands Museum     Harvard Art Museums     The Heckscher Museum of Art     Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University     High Museum of Art     Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens     Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields     Los Angeles County Museum of Art     Lyman Allyn Art Museum     Mattatuck Museum     Mead Art Museum, Amherst College     The Metropolitan Museum of Art     Middlebury College Museum of Art     Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis     Milwaukee Art Museum     Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts     Munson Museum of Art     Museo de Arte de Ponce     Museum of Fine Arts, Boston     Museum of Fine Arts, Houston     National Gallery of Art     Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art     The Newark Museum of Art     New Britain Museum of American Art     New Hampshire Historical Society     The New York Historical     The Parthenon     Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts     Philadelphia Museum of Art     Portland Museum of Art     Princeton University Art Museum     Reading Public Museum     Reynolda House Museum of American Art     Santa Barbara Museum of Art     Seattle Art Museum     Smith College Museum of Art     Smithsonian American Art Museum     Springfield Museums     Tacoma Art Museum     Thomas Cole National Historic Site     University of Michigan Museum of Art     Virginia Museum of Fine Arts     Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art     The Walters Art Museum     Washington County Museum of Fine Arts     White House Historical Association     Woodmere Art Museum     Yale University Art Gallery     Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza     Honolulu Museum of Art     National Galleries of Scotland    

2026 MARKS THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF FREDERIC CHURCH, AMERICA’S GREATEST LANDSCAPE ARTIST, AND THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP IS LAUNCHING FREDERIC CHURCH 200 TO CELEBRATE AND EXTEND HIS LEGACY.

Church’s huge and immersive paintings of the natural world captivated a global audience, bringing him critical and financial success and international recognition for American art. His creative energy exploded beyond the canvas at Olana, his 250-acre designed landscape, home, and studio in the Hudson Valley. Church stood apart from his contemporaries by looking beyond European models to seek inspiration in contemporary scientific and environmental thinking. Each painting was an adventure, taking him to South America to paint volcanoes and rain forests, to Labrador and Newfoundland to capture icebergs, and to the Middle East to depict the geology and landmarks of the ancient world. Today, Church’s paintings can be seen in more than 70 public art museums across the United States and in Europe, and Olana, a New York State Historic Site and National Historic Landmark, stands as the greatest testament to his vision.

Church’s legacy also includes the leading role he played in the great artistic and cultural endeavors of his time. He was a founding trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a parks commissioner in New York’s Central Park, and championed the creation of the first state park in the United States at Niagara Falls. Through his art, Church was also actively involved in the politics of his day, especially as an advocate for the Union cause during the Civil War.

In 2026, to celebrate Frederic Church’s lasting impact on American art, numerous museums across the United States will present exhibitions and programs related to his work, including a groundbreaking exhibition at Olana which highlights Church’s role as a global artist. Four new books will be published throughout the year, spanning Church’s life and artistic achievements, including the first holistic biography by acclaimed author Victoria Johnson. Additional events will be announced, and on April 22, the annual Frederic Church Awards will be presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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    More than seventy museums and public institutions worldwide hold works by Frederic Church in their collections. In 2026, many of these institutions will mark the bicentennial of Church’s birth with exhibitions, installations, and programs highlighting Church and his legacy.

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