Frederic Church's Landscapes
Frederic Church's Landscapes
Description session for blind and partially-sighted visitors
Date and time
Saturday 27 April, 11.30am–12.45pm
Jocelyn Clarke
Tickets
Admission free – advance booking recommended. Please phone 020 7747 5855 or email education@ng-london.org.uk to guarantee a place.
Hear about three landscape oil sketches by Frederic Church – 'Niagara Falls, from the American Side', 'Winter Twilight from Olana' and 'Floating Iceberg, Labrador' – currently on display in the exhibition Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch.
Art Through Words
These sessions for blind and partially-sighted visitors begin with a detailed verbal description of a painting and end with a visit to the Gallery. Sessions take place on the last Saturday of each month (excluding December).
Image above: Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls, from the American Side (detail), 1867
© Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. Presented by John S. Kennedy 1887
See also
6 February – 28 April 2013- Find out about all Art Through Words events at the National Gallery
- See what's on at the Gallery
