Composing Olana: A Journey on Foot Through Frederic Church's Greatest Work of Art

The first and only book devoted to the landscape Frederic Church designed at Olana – what he considered his greatest work of art – timed to coincide with the bicentennial of his birth

Modelled on her acclaimed On the High Line (now in its third edition from Fordham University Press), Composing Olana unfolds as a series of walks along the seven carriage roads Frederic Edwin Church built here in 1860s-1880s. Along the way, LaFarge unpacks the history of everything we see, and much that we don’...