A Walk in the Woods
By Deej6
Kaweah Range, Sequoia National Park, California
Purple Mountain Majesties (by Chief Bwana)
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900)
The Natural Bridge, Virginia
Oil on canvas
1852
58.42 x 71.12 cm___
For his spectacular and panoramic paintings of the wilderness of North and South America, Frederic Edwin Church was a dominant figure in the second generation of the Hudson River School. His canvases celebrated the drama of the American frontier and expressed the expansionist and optimistic outlook of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
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