Fire & Ice: Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana by: Fels, Thomas
Hardcover. New York, Dahesh Museum of Art, July 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a dust jacket. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. Spotless copy. Frederic Church (1826-1900), who gained international renown for paintings such as Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), and The Icebergs (1861), was inspired by his extensive travel and study. His work was also informed by his appreciation of a new visual medium. Fire & Ice, a selection from the several thousand photographs and daguerreotypes Church collected at Olana, his Orientalist home on the Hudson River, provides insight into the interests and taste of one of nineteenth-century America's greatest painters.