Frederic Church's Olana by James Anthony Ryan
To say that Olana is the single most important artistic residence in the United States and one of the most significant in the world, is to state the obvious. To say that it is a place of the rarest, most profound, and most moving beauty and complexity and that it is a place that must be experienced to be fully understood and appreciated, is more to the point. In the end, though, one can only say that Olana is unique.----from the Introduction by Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Named for a fortress treasure-house in ancient Persia, Olana was the home of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), one of America's most important artists, a student of Thomas Cole, and a major figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
Built high on a hill between 1870 and 1891, Olana holds lordly sway over sweeping vistas of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River. Today, Olana is a New York State Historic Site visited annually by over 250,000 people, making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Hudson Valley and upstate New York.
Called by Church the Center of the World, Olana's Persian-style house and 250 acres of romantically-designed grounds are a personal vision of harmony between man and the American landscape a perfect Eden of picturesque beauty, as one 1891 visitor described it.
This book tells Olana's remarkable story.
Increasingly, Olana is recognized as Church's last great artistic effort carried out, not in paint, but in landscape, architecture, and interior design. Today, visitors to Olana are also touched by the sense of home they find there, where the creations of man and nature, the human and the divine, merge in domestic and artistic harmony.----from the Afterword by David Seamon and Karen Zukowski
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| ISBN 13 | 9781883789282 |
| ISBN 10 | 1883789281 |
| Title | Frederic Church's Olana |
| Author | James Anthony Ryan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Black Dome Press |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 103 |
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