Curatorial Narrative Frederic Edwin Church’s “Sunset over bare hills” anchors itself within the nascent American Impressionist movement of the late 19th century. Executed between 1870 and 80, this painting exemplifies the artist’s increasing interest in evoking atmospheric conditions through deliberate brushwork and chromatic structure. The application of thick impasto textures imbues the composition with a three-dimensional quality, as if the hills themselves were rising from the canvas. Church achieves a sense of depth by gradually modulating the scale of forms from the diminutive foreground rocks to the towering silhouettes in the background.When enlarged to approximately 71×44 feet, “Sunset over bare hills” assumes an imposing presence within a luxury interior environment. The dark browns and muted oranges that predominate the palette establish an air of somber contemplation, which can be countered by judicious selection of mate