Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World turning landscape painting into a

turning landscape painting into a portrait of a nation

But when Fox eventually stumbles upon the object of his quest

arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation

He was the principal photographer for Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York and The New York Botanical Garden

Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World turning landscape painting into aFrom 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