Olana: Frederic Church's Vision of Art and Landscape
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- ISBN 9780847876952
- Dimensions: 248 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 22 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Showcasing one of the most breathtaking artist-designed homes and landscapes in the United States, the book immerses readers in the sweeping vision of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826 1900), who transformed 250 acres overlooking the Hudson River into a harmonious blend of art, architecture, and panoramic scenery. The volume features a rich selection of Church s paintings, placing Olana in dialogue with the artist s studio practice and pictorial imagination. Timed with Church 200, the nationwide celebration of his birth, this volume places Olana within a global lineage of artist-architect-designers while offering fresh scholarship that renews its significance today. Newly commissioned photography captures Olana s dramatic views, Persian-inspired architecture, curving carriage roads, and the newly opened Frederic Church Center, while rare historic photographs reveal Olana at the end of Church s life. A highlight of the book is the revival of Church s living landscape: the replanting of birches, hickories, and other native species has restored the rich woodlands that frame the estate. The result is a dynamic environment that reflects Church s original vision an immersive, ever-changing masterpiece where art, nature, ecology, and history meet.
Barry Bergdoll is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the former Chief Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, New York. Sean E. Sawyer is the Washburn & Susan Oberwager President of The Olana Partnership. Thomas Woltz is the Principal and Owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW).
