Church painted on very large canvases, and was painstaking to the smallest detail. A pioneer in the landscape art of America, he had all the directness and bigness of the pioneer. “The Heart of the Andes” and the “Niagara” give him a permanent place in the history of American painting. PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 1, No. 26, SERIAL No. 26 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mentor: American Landscape Painters, Vol. 1, Num. 26, Ser, by Samuel Isham