What do Frederic Church’s landscapes, New York’s Central Park, and Niagara Falls Reservation have
in common? In this virtual discussion, Rebecca Bedell argues that, beyond their shared aesthetics
and Church’s involvement with all three, they all are, in a sense, memorial landscapes. join to learn
more about how they are also therapeutic landscapes, offering solace and healing to those abraded by modern life. This webinar is offered in anticipation of Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory which opens May 12.

Rebecca Bedell is the Professor of American Art at Wellesley College. She is the author of the award-winning books The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting and Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States, as well as numerous essays about nineteenth-century landscape art.