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From Church to Dove: One Hundred Years of American Painting from the Heckscher Museum of Art |
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Autumn c. 1845 Oil on canvas 20 x 30 1/2 inches Heckscher Museum of Art, Gift of August Heckscher |
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After briefly studying with two local artists, Benjamin Hutchins Coe and Alexander Hamilton Emmons, Frederic Edwin Church moved to Catskill, New York to study painting with the prominent American landscape artist Thomas Cole, with whom he spent two years (1844-46). It was probably at this time, while visiting with Cole at Catskill, that Church painted Autumn. Inspired by the natural beauty of this setting, and encouraged by one of America's most highly regarded landscape painters, Church soon developed his own artistic talent. This important early work displays the artist-naturalist's concern for detail, what art historian Henry Tuckerman referred to as, "the permanent traits of vegetation…the tints and tones of woodland and water, foliage and rocks." | ||