The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: ‘Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America’ by Victoria Johnson

Historian Victoria Johnson has a gift for uncovering the human stories behind American culture. In her new book, ‘Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America’ and America to the World, she turns to Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter whose sweeping landscapes helped define a young nation’s sense of itself.Johnson traces Church’s global travels - from the Arctic to South America - and shows how his art connected American audiences to a wider world.

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The Roundtable Live from Frederic Church’s OLANA: ‘Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America’ by Victoria Johnson is an episode from The Roundtable by WAMC.

This episode is 25:13 long.

This episode was published on May 4, 2026.

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