Frederic Church as Design Visionary: A Discussion With Sheila Bridges and Young Huh March 27, 2024 Join top interior designers Sheila Bridges and Young Huh for a very special virtual opportunity as they reflect on Frederic Church’s interior design aesthetic, sharing thoughts on the carefully ...Read More

Re-Presenting Landscape: The Paintings of Lydia Rubio With Lydia Rubio March 6, 2024 How can landscape painting serve as a source of refuge and self-reflection in today’s challenging world? During this virtual webinar, Cuban American artist Lydia Rubio will discuss how her work reinterprets the ...Read More

Coffee Extravaganza: 19th Century Displays of Abundance and the Art of Coffee Drinking With Caroline Gillaspie February 21, 2024 During Church’s lifetime, the United States became the largest importer of coffee in the world, sourcing most of their product from Brazil. During this virtual webinar, ...Read More

Traveling to "The Heart of the Andes" With Mauricio Diazgranados February 7, 2024 The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Church is an exquisite representation of the biological richness of these breathtaking landscapes, inviting curious eyes to explore every inch of this fabulous painting. During ...Read More

Exploring the Life and Legacy of Charles Ethan Porter, “the Hartford artist” With Erin Monroe January 31, 2024 During this virtual webinar, learn more about Charles Ethan Porter’s accomplished still life and landscape paintings that were collected by prominent figures like Church and Mark Twain. ...Read More

The Art of the Order of Nature: Frederic Edwin Church and Humboldt's Earthly Model With Kevin J. Avery January 25, 2024 Presented in conjunction with SPECTACLE: Frederic Church and the Business of Art, this webinar focuses on what inspired Frederic Church's "Great Picture." Senior research ...Read More

Yankee Enterprise: Finances and Fine Art in Church’s "The Heart of the Andes" With Katherine Manthorne November 15, 2023 Frederic Church based his large-scale painting The Heart of the Andes (1859) on his two trips to South America in 1853 and 1857. This webinar will ...Read More

From Meteors to Auroras: Frederic Church Looks to the Skies With Eleanor Jones Harvey November 8, 2023 In this talk, Eleanor Harvey takes us on a nocturnal voyage of discovery through some of Church’s most significant paintings. Central to this talk will be a close ...Read More

To Bring the World Home: Collecting Photography in the Nineteenth Century With Corey Keller October 17, 2023 Church’s collection of travel photography provides a new perspective on his work as a landscape painter and sheds light on the 19th-century philosophical outlook that the world was ...Read More