This program traces Church's career from early studies in the Hudson River valley with the eminent painter Thomas Cole through the years when Church's heroic depictions of the natural wonders of the Americas made him the nation's most celebrated landscape painter. Footage of the Catskills and of Church's final work of art-- Olana, his splendid house overlooking the Hudson River in upstate New York-- is included.
Broadcast In: English Duration: 0:28:23