As we in Hudson are all well aware, this year marks the 200th anniversary of Frederic Church's birth. The epicenter of the celebration, of course, is Olana, Church's home and his final masterpiece, but the observance of Church's bicentennial is taking place in other locations as well. You can explore all the events and exhibitions, happening at Olana and elsewhere, by clicking here.
It came to Gossips' attention recently that one of the museum's celebrating Church's bicentennial is the Detroit Institute of Arts.
To mark the 200th anniversary of Frederic Church's birth, the Detroit Institute of Arts presents Guests of Honor: Frederic Church's Cotopaxi, an exhibition highlighting the artist's dramatic 1862 painting of an erupting South American volcano. One of the DIA's most beloved American paintings, Cotopaxi appears together with three of Church's oil studies of the volcano and a related landscape by his contemporary, Louis Remy Mignot.
Cotopaxi is one of two Frederic Church paintings in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The other is Syria by the Sea, the painting whose completion for James Frederick Joy of Detroit was reported in the Hudson Weekly Star on January 1, 1874.
Syria by the Sea was given to the Detroit Institute of Arts by Joy's widow in 1910.
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