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Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser - Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica - 9780801449208 - V9780801449208
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Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica

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Description for Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica Hardback. Series: The Olana Collection. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; ACVC; AGB; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 254 x 12. Weight in Grams: 628.

Preface and Acknowledgments by Washburn S. Oberwager

In 1865 the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to Jamaica on a sojourn of recovery after the tragic deaths of their two young children Herbert and Emma. A time to mourn and escape from the constant reminders found at their home, Olana, the Churches' trip to Jamaica also provided ample inspiration for Frederic. The Olana Collection includes eight oil sketches, an ink drawing, and a pencil drawing Church made in Jamaica. Five of these oil sketches on paper Church chose to mount to canvas and frame for ... Read more

Within Church's oeuvre the studies of Jamaican sunsets, mountains, and foliage are particularly lovely. Church wrote of Jamaica: "The scenery is superb.... I have accomplished a great amount of work—but there is so much to do that I am at a loss to decide day by day—what to paint."

The 2010 exhibit at Olana will help explain Church's working process by showing Sunset Jamaica and the resulting studio work The After Glow together; it will include five works never before exhibited and reveal Church's interesting use of his photography collection both as an aide-mémoire and as substrate for sketching. Fern Hunting among Picturesque Mountains includes forty-eight color illustrations, as well as essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (on Church's Jamaica work) and Katherine Manthorne (about Church's friends and fellow artists who also traveled to Jamaica to paint).

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Series
The Olana Collection
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449208
SKU
V9780801449208
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About Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser is Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Anthony Johnson is the Ambassador to the United States from Jamaica.

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