Frederick Church

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My favorite landscape painter. Just amazing. I saw a couple of these last month at the Phoenix Art Museum as part of the American Beauty exhibit from the Detroit Museum. Truly incredible.

Church was part of the Hudson River School and was considered by many in his time to be the greatest painter America ever produced. Though I am not a big fan of landscapes alone, I am a fan of his. His orginals are very large and they are quite loose. If you have the chance to go see one of his pieces at your local museum, it will be worth it.

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In the painting below, you can see where Ted Nasmith (I am a fan of his work as well) might have found some inspiration for his LOTR painting of Mount Doom in this painting title Cotopaxi.

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and I had to post a bigger one for this one:

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thanks ultramarinez ! I love Churchs' work.. He traveled to so many wonderful places.... *jealous with envy*

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inconcievably good.. I also liked Bierstadt, JMW Turner, and Canalletto.. I liked a lot of the English watercolorists like Cotman as well.. What do u think of them?