A quick visit to the New Britain Museum of American Art. One room held numerous nice paintings from the Hudson River School. The feature was Frederic Church's 1849 painting, "West Rock, New Haven."
From the sign beside the painting, I learned that Church often inserted a small church steeple into his works as kind of a signature. Here it is above the trees on the right. Church added a field next to the river as a wink to his friend and patron, Cyrus Field, who had commissioned the work.
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A fine room for the paintings.
That is a great space, Jack.
The Hudson River School of art produced wonderfully romantic paintings, so it must have been a pleasure to tour this museum. Frederic Church had a great sense of humor.
Church was quite playful in that painting. I like that sense of humor.
Beautiful work.
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