Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art Hensonville

Hensonville

He portrays the diversity of this collection with photographs that reveal the trees in a myriad of fascinating perspectives: in landscape views that convey the Garden’s genius loci

but he offered them this toast: “Live free or die—death is not the worst of evils

Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley surveys the majestic landscape that borders the Hudson River

Ice Age forces sculpted the site of his estate

Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art HensonvilleAuthor: James Anthony Ryan Introduction: Franklin Kelly Almost an hour this side of Albany is the Center of the WorldI own it. Frederic Edwin Church in a letter to Erastus Palmer, 7 July 1869. (The collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art) Olana, the Persian style house and romantically designed grounds built high on a hilltop just south of the city of Hudson by Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (18261900) draws 150,000