Frederic Church's Olana Architecture and Landscape As Art |
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| Author:
| Ryan, James Anthony |
| Foreword by:
| Kelly, Franklin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-883789-28-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | Black Dome Press, Corporation
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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The landscape, farm, house and collections that comprise Olana are a work of art conceived and executed by the preeminent mid-19th-century American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826¿1900). Considered one of the most perfectly realized visions of harmony between people and their natural surroundings, Olana is a landmark of Picturesque landscape gardening with a Persian-inspired house at its summit embracing unrivaled panoramic views of the Hudson Valley. A rare American...
More DescriptionThe landscape, farm, house and collections that comprise Olana are a work of art conceived and executed by the preeminent mid-19th-century American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826¿1900). Considered one of the most perfectly realized visions of harmony between people and their natural surroundings, Olana is a landmark of Picturesque landscape gardening with a Persian-inspired house at its summit embracing unrivaled panoramic views of the Hudson Valley. A rare American confluence of art and farming, aesthetics and conservation, landscape painting and landscape design, Olana represents a masterpiece of human creative genius.