Tag: landscapes

How 19th-Century Painter Frederic Edwin Church Created Luminescent Art Full of Beauty and Hope

The story is told of a moment in the North Carolina mansion of Richard Joshua Reynolds, American businessman and founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. One of the family’s small children was staring intently at an extremely large canvas in the family parlor. His mother asked him what he was admiring in the painting….


America the Beautiful

This gallery was published in American Essence magazine.