06/05/2026
For today’s , we are want to promote Frederic Church: Global Artist, an exhibition and accompanying catalogue co-curated and co-published by AHAA member Elizabeth Kornhauser (.kornhauser). The exhibition is currently on view at Olana State Historic Site.
“The life and work of Frederic Church (1826–1900) was indelibly shaped by global travel. Early trips took him to South America, across the northeastern United States, to Jamaica, and to the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Later he visited Europe and the Near Middle East, and in his final decades he made 15 winter sojourns in Mexico. The designed landscape, global collections, and striking architecture of the home he and his wife Isabel named “Olana” reflect the many worlds through which he traveled.
Frederic Church: Global Artist examines the artist in his own time and demonstrates his continuing relevance for today’s audiences. Co-curated by Elizabeth Kornhauser, Tim Barringer, and Jennifer Raab, Frederic Church: Global Artist unites drawings and oil sketches from Church’s travels with examples of his large, extravagantly detailed paintings produced for public exhibition.
This lavishly illustrated volume features original essays by scholars from across the humanities that reveal Church as an artist whose works engage with questions of industrialization and environmental destruction, the rise and fall of empires, the construction of national identity, and the cataclysmic effects of slavery and civil war.”
Frederic Church: Global Artist is curated by Elizabeth Kornhauser, Curator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Senior Curator and Chair, The Frederic Church Bicentennial Committee, The Olana Partnership; Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art, Yale University; and Jennifer Raab, Professor in the History of Art, Yale University.
