Frederic Church’s Middle Eastern Costume Collection: Its Inspiration and Impact With Hanan Munayyer June 24, 2020 As Frederic and Isabel Church travelled in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine in 1868, they commented on the “picturesque costumed individuals” (Isabel’s diary, 1868) they saw, inspiring them to bring ...Read More

Unplanned Views: The Geological History of Olana With Robert and Johanna Titus June 10, 2020 The 250 acres of land that comprise Frederic Church’s OLANA became the canvas for his pioneering endeavors in landscape architecture. Participants will learn about the geological history of Olana and ...Read More

Olana Perspectives: After Icebergs at Cooper Hewitt With Caitlin Condell May 27, 2020 In the summer of 1859, Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)—the most celebrated American landscape painter of his time—journeyed to Newfoundland and Labrador to study and sketch icebergs. These studies, drawn from Cooper Hewitt’s ...Read More

Olana Perspectives:"Only the Roar Left Out": Frederic Church and Niagara Falls With Sarah Cash May 20, 2020 This lecture presents aspects of Cash’s ongoing research into Frederic Church’s paintings and drawings of Niagara Falls, focusing on one of the most important landscape paintings in the ...Read More

Olana Perspectives: Frederic Church and the Metropolitan Museum of Art With Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser May 13, 2020 This talk focuses on the extraordinary role played by Frederic Church (1826-1900) as a founding trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Church helped to establish the ...Read More

Olana Perspectives: Olana as Epitome With Dr. William L. Coleman May 6, 2020 This talk places Olana in a transatlantic history of artist’s houses, and of painter-architects, with the goal of showing the place we love is not an intriguing anomaly but rather the crystallization ...Read More

Olana Perspectives: Alexander von Humboldt and Frederic Church—An Insider’s Perspective With Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey April 29, 2020 In this webinar, Dr. Eleanor Jones Harvey shares her once in a lifetime exhibition Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture, which is ...Read More

Subject Specialist Talk: Frederic Edwin Church & W.H. Osborn—Art, Patronage and Friendship With Dr. Christine Isabelle Oaklander April 22, 2020 Dr. Christine Oaklander is an independent art historian and private art consultant with over thirty years of expertise in the field of American art. Here ...Read More

Subject Specialist Talk: David Huntington and the Saving of Olana With Dorothy Heyl April 15, 2020 After Church’s daughter-in-law died in 1964, having preserved Olana for decades with her husband Louis Palmer Church, her heirs put Olana on the market. An option granted by the ...Read More

Up Close + Personal: A Collections Talk With Professor Katherine Manthorne March 8, 2020 Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Katherine Manthorne, focuses on Cayambe by Frederic Church. She speaks about Frederic Church’s close study of nature and how he ...Read More