People thought Niagara Falls was impossible to paint. Artists spent decades trying and flopping. Then Frederic Edwin Church showed up and completely ratioed the competition. Swipe to uncover the story ➡️ #artuncovered __ 🖼 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 canvas, 66 x 120 in., Bequest of Margaret E. Dows, 1909, The Metropolitan Museum of Art #art ...