Recommended: 6 Art-Filled Day Trips from New York Church’s estate served as a window into other worlds and cultures. Drawn to nature from a young age, he sketched prolifically during his extensive travels and enraptured viewers back home with his depictions of other worlds. Rosenbaum and Karen Zukowski with photographs by Larry Lederman, the book tours the historic house and its many resplendent rooms, which are adorned in beautiful furnishings, incredible art, and the many objects that Church collected during his global expeditions. After traveling to the Middle East, he had returned to Hudson keen on implementing elements of Persian architecture into his home, though, he admitted in a letter, “I have never been … I am obliged to imagine Persian architecture, then embody it on paper.”Īn aerial view of Olana with the Catskill Mountains in the distance. “I match every stone that is laid, examine every timber, direct almost everything no matter how trivial,” Church wrote to a friend about the construction of Olana.
What’s more, it delves into the details of Church’s design process, revealing the artist’s intimate involvement in the unique castle’s construction. Frederic Church’s Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, Architecture ( Rizzoli, $60) showcases the artist’s home, which overlooks the Catskill Mountains from its hilltop perch in Hudson, New York. Photo: Larry Lederman / Courtesy of Rizzoliįrederic Edwin Church is remembered as a painter of sublime landscapes, but a new book reveals that the artist had an eye for architecture as well. The new book showcases the magnificent architecture and landscape of Frederic Edwin Church’s estate (Rizzoli, $60).
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