Episode No. 756 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features author Victoria Johnson and curator Emily A. Beeny.
Johnson is the author of “Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World,” the first major biography of the most important and influential painter in the US nineteenth century. The book will be published by Scribner next week. Johnson’s book tells the story of Church’s life, and especially his travels even as she explains how Church’s work engaged with the scientific and political worlds of his time. It is likely to be the authoritative source on Church’s life for decades to come. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for about $35.
Beeny is the curator of “Manet & Morisot,” an exploration of the artistic exchange between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The show particularly focuses on the 15 years between 1868 and 1883, when Manet and Morisot shared perhaps the closest relationship of any two impressionists. It’s on view in Cleveland through July 5. A fine catalogue was published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with Yale University Press. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $57-70.
Instagram: Victoria Johnson, Tyler Green.
Air date: April 30. 2026.
Frederic Edwin Church, The Charter Oak, Hartford, 1846.
Frederic Edwin Church, The Charter Oak at Hartford, ca. 1846.
Frederic Edwin Church, Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, 1846.
Frederic Edwin Church, West Rock, New Haven, 1849.
Frederic Edwin Church, Evening After a Storm, 1849.
Frederic Edwin Church, New England Scenery, 1851.
Frederic Edwin Church, The Natural Bridge, 1852.
Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight, Short arbiter ‘twixt day and night, 1850.
Frederic Edwin Church, Ira Mountain, Vermont, 1849-50.
Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860.
Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857.
Frederic Edwin Church, Tequendama Falls, near Bogota, 1855.
Frederic Edwin Church, Sunrise, The Cordilleras, 1854.
Frederic Edwin Church, The Andes of Ecuador, 1855.
Frederic Edwin Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859.
Frederic Edwin Church, Mt. Ktaadn, 1853.
Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1862.
Frederic Edwin Church, The Parthenon, 1871.
Frederic Edwin Church, El Khasné, Petra, 1874.
Édouard Manet, The Balcony, 1868-69.
Berthe Morisot, Young Woman at Her Window, 1869.
Édouard Manet, Interior at Arcachon, 1871.
Berthe Morisot, Interior, ca. 1872-73.
Édouard Manet, Boating, 1874-76.
Berthe Morisot, Lake in the Bois de Boulogne (known as Summer’s Day), 1879.
Édouard Manet, Before the Mirror, 1877.
Berthe Morisot, Woman at Her Toilette, ca. 1879–1880.
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