Niagara Falls was virtually impossible to paint—at least, that was the common consensus in the mid-19th century. By then, European and American artists had spent decades trying to capture the glory of this natural wonder, with little success. Then Frederic Edwin Church came along and blew them out of the water. __ 🖼 Frederic Edwin Church, “Niagara,” 1857, oil on canvas, 40 × 90 in., Corcoran Collection,📍 West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 71 🖼 Frederic Edwin Church, “The Falls of Tequendama, Near Bogotá, New Granada,” 1854, oil on canvas, 60 × 48 in., The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial, The Cincinnati Art Museum 🖼️ Frederic Edwin Church, "Niagara Falls, from the American Side,” 1867, oil on canvas, 101 x 89 in., Presented by John S Kennedy 1887, National Galleries of Scotland 🖼️ Frederic Edwin Church, "Study for 'Under Niagara'," 1858, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 11 x 17 in., Olana State Historic Site, New York 🖼️ Frederic Edwin Church, “Heart of the Andes,” 1859, oil on ...