Hudson Valley in Winter, Looking Southwest from Olana
Classification
landscapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-330-b
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Frederic Edwin Church, a master of the Hudson School, painted *Hudson Valley in Winter Looking Southwest from Olana between 1870 and 1880. This luminous landscape captures the serene beauty of New York's Hudson Valley from the artist's own estate, Olana—a Persian-inspired mountaintop home overlooking the river that Church co-designed with architect Calvert Vaux. By this late-career period, Church had returned from exotic travels to focus on his beloved local vistas, infusing them with a sense of intimate grandeur despite his debilitating rheumatism. As a quintessential Hudson River School wor...