John Wilmerding is Christopher Binyon Sarafim '86 Professor of American Art in the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University and visiting curator in the Department of American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Next to visiting Olana in person, browsing through Treasures from Olana is as fine a visit to Frederic Edwin Church's home on the upper Hudson River that you might hope for. Full of facts and images, this little book is a treasure you will periodically want to dip into at your leisure."-Raymond J. Steiner, Art Times, October 2005 "Church boasted, 'Almost an hour south of Albany is the Center of the World-I own it.' The word 'Olana' is one that Mr. and Mrs. Church found applied to a 'fortress or treasury-storehouse in ancient Persia.' According to Kevin J. Avery's description in his excellent and entertaining catalog text, it feels like a fortress from outside and is a musty treasury within, evoking 'nothing so much as a silent film set, minus a turbaned Douglas Fairbanks Sr. bounding down the stairs.'"-John Updike, New York Review of Books, 23 March 2006
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