Olana announces the opening of a new exhibition, In the Footsteps of Frederic Church: Photos by Larry Lederman.

The recently restored Olana Coachman’s House is now the home to an exciting exhibition featuring photos by Larry Lederman.  Lederman’s photographs of the New York Botanical Garden have been the source for the Garden’s highly regarded calendar for the last six years. The Olana exhibition features photos by Lederman of a number of sites that renowned Hudson River School artist Frederic E. Church painted and seek to explore his art and evoke his artistic vision. The images Lederman has selected for the exhibition are a representative selection of the range of Church’s subject matter and affirm for the viewer that many of the wilderness enclaves Church painted still exist, preserved as part of our heritage because of the beauty that he and other nineteenth century painters captured. The sites represented include, Mount Desert Island, Maine; Newfoundland; Niagara Falls, and scenes from Olana. Read More »