Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World Cementing the United States as

Cementing the United States as a cultural and artistic force a full century before America’s Abstract Impressionists rose to prominence

Publisher: Monacelli Press

He gave Americans visions of the majesty of their own new country and of the wonders of worlds only to be seen in paintings by this astonishing adventurer and artist

response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway

selected for their natural

Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World Cementing the United States asFrom the author of American Edenfinalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and morecomes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culturepublished on Churchs bicentennial. They came to see the world. New York, spring 1859. Outside Frederic Churchs Tenth