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Identifier: americanpainters00shel (find matches)
Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of rocks andtrees. In 1849, having opened a studio in New York, he was elected a mem-ber of the National Academy of Design, in his twenty-third year. One of his!ir-t principal works was a view of East Rock, near New Haven, which wasconsidered a picture of unusual promise. This was followed by a series oflandscapes, in which he used the studies obtained during his wanderings inthe Catskills and in New England. Four yeai-s after his election to the Academy, Church made his first trip toSouth America, and, when he returned, his painting entitled The GreatMountain-Chain of New Granada, together with other works founded uponstudies made in that continent, met with immediate success. People did notlh ii know much abouf the land of the Amazon and the Andes, and Churchsucceeded in greatly interesting them in it, showing them the most surprisingfeatures of a very wonderful region. The reception accorded to his picturesnaturally stimulated him to other ventures in the same line of business, and
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o s > •*) (1 N *; FREDERICK E DW I X CHURCH. 13 four years after his first excursion he made a second one. It was in 1857 thathe again set sail for South America. This time he staid longer and pene-trated farther—obtaining, doubtless, material sufficient for a lifetime of pict-ure-painting ; a recent work, exhibited at the Century Club in New York,and now in the gallery of Mr. William E. Dodge, Jr., being an elaborationand arrangement of all sorts of South American studies. We may expectto see a good many similar productions from the same brush, if the healthof the man who holds it permits. Mr. Churchs right arm, as is wellknown, has been partly disabled for several years. May it speedily resumeits cunniug! The immediate trophies of this second trip to the tropics were, The Heartof the Andes, Cotopaxi, The Eainy Season in the Tropics, A TropicalMoonlight, and Chimborazo, the last two being eugraved for this narrative.They are all wel

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