The Other Church

The North Shore Historical Museum celebrates the life and career of impressionist painter F. Edwin Church

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F. Edwin Church (1876-1975), Alice in the Garden. Oil on canvas, 36 x 46 in. Jud McCrehin Photography, 2024.

If you do a Google search of “F. Edwin Church” the first result is for Frederic Edwin Church, the famous landscape painter and Hudson River School artist. Herein lies the problem because F. Edwin Church is an entirely different artist, albeit one named exactly after the search’s first result. (In fairness, Google does fetch the correct F. Edwin Church for the second and third results.)

Church (F. Edwin from here on out), an East Coast impressionist painter, was the subject of a New York retrospective in 1975, the year he died. The artist was 98 years old at the time but attended the event and was even photographed in the gallery by the Oyster Bay Guardian. Now, 50 years since that momentous salute to his career, the North Shore Historical Museum is celebrating Church once again with the exhibition Revealing F. Edwin Church, American Impressionist. The exhibition runs through August 17.