6 February - 28 April ‘Through American Eyes: Frederic Churc h and the Landscape Oil Sketch’ displays a distinctive aspect of the work o f Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), his landscape oil sketches. Church wa s a leading member of the Hudson River School of landscape painters, activ e in the mid-19th century, and a key American exponent of the oil sketch w hich he executed both at home and on his extensive travels to Niagara Falls , Labrador, Jamaica, Mexico and the Middle East. Oil sketches have be come objects of appreciation and study in their own right. Among students o f American art, Church’s sketches in particular are admired for their fres hness and originality. This exhibition brings together some 30 oil sketc hes. Works are drawn from the incomparable collections of the Cooper-HewittMuseum, New York, and Olana, Church’s picturesque estate along the Huds on River, now a New York State Historic Site. They are joined in the exhib ition by a single, monumental painting, 'Niagara Falls, from the America n Side' (1867), showing the relationship between sketch and finished maste rpiece. This exhibition will travel to the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (11 May – 8 September 2013). http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk /whats-on/exhibitions/frederic-church