Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World
A lively new biography ... Exciting.
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Superb ... Frederic Church is today half-forgotten. Has Ms. Johnson retrieved him for us as a man worthy of interest? It can surely be argued that she has. A lively, fluent writer, she has given us not a piece of art history or criticism but rather the biography of an enormously gifted man, whose enthusiasms and acquaintances intersected with those of many other fascinating people in New York City and beyond. More than anything, Glorious Country is an absorbing contribution to the life story of a metropolis.
Vivid ... Church was a man of action, a good choice for an art historian, and Johnson matches him for gusto. Not for her the longueurs of the artist’s childhood and education. Her brightly told biography begins in medias res.
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