Frederic Church, the acclaimed Hudson River School artist, first
traveled to Maine in 1850. Over the next decades Church ventured
repeatedly from his New York State home, Olana, to explore the
Maine coast and its rocky islands. He also frequently trekked
inland to visit Mount Katahdin. Maine provided sensational sunsets,
robust waves crashing on rocky shores, and an abundance of
wilderness well suited to Church's artistic vision.
Maine Sublime brings together all of the artwork in the Olana
collection resulting from and inspired by Church s travels, from
finished oil sketches that Church selected to mount, frame, and
display at his home to pencil sketches and cartoons that he stored
in portfolios. The subjects include such specific locations as
Sunset Bar Harbor (1854) and works like Sunset (ca. 1852 65) and
Twilight a Sketch (1858), which were inspired by dramatic Maine
skies and are evocative of the region as a whole. Throughout his
life, Church would continue to visit Maine, sketching, fishing, and
hiking. In 1878 he bought land on Lake Millinocket with a view of
Katahdin and built a simple cabin. After Church s marriage in 1860,
his wife Isabel often joined his excursions to Maine. In a witty
cartoon included in this catalog, Frederic and Isabel Church on
Mount Desert Island, Church captures his wife s admiration of the
scenery.
Maine Sublime accompanies an exhibit of Church s Maine artwork
that will be displayed at the Portland Museum of Art (Portland,
Maine) from June to September, 2012; the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston from February to May 2013; and the Evelyn and Maurice Sharp
Gallery at Olana (Hudson, New York) from July to October,
2013."
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