Niagara (Frederic Edwin Church)

Niagara
ArtistFrederic Edwin Church
Year1857
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions101.6 cm × 229.9 cm (40.0 in × 90.5 in)
LocationCorcoran Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The final study for the painting. Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, 1856–57, oil on two pieces of paper, 29.2 × 90.5 cm. Olana State Historic Site[1]

Niagara is an oil painting produced in 1857 by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church. Niagara was his most important work at the time, and confirmed his reputation as the premier American landscape painter of the time.[2] In his history of Niagara Falls, Pierre Berton writes, "Of the hundreds of paintings made of Niagara, before Church and after him, this is by common consent the greatest."[3]

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