Below the Surface: What Scientific Imaging Reveals about Church’s Artistic Process by Maura Lyons

While Frederic Church won acclaim during his lifetime for his skills as a painter, a focus solely on Church’s paintings ignores his technical experimentation in multiple media, including drawing and printmaking. In this virtual webinar, Maura Lyons will focus on two Civil War-era works, Our Banner in the Sky and Our Flag, to examine Church’s working process more closely.