In this week's Bowery Boys podcast, we chat with award-winning author, professor, and historian,

Victoria Johnson, about her new book on one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century,

Frederick Church.

She reveals some of the more unusual and even life-threatening detour she took during her research process.

And we spent about half an hour trying to get out of this lightning storm without getting

struck and killed.

The Bowery Boys episode 485, the painter who brought the world to New York.

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Welcome to the Bowery Boys. And is Greg Young. And this is Tom Myers. And boy, do we have a fun show today, Greg. Yeah. So a few years ago, we did an absolutely magical show for our road trip to the Hudson River Valley. That's right. Where we did a whole show on the Hudson River School. We visited the House of Thomas Cole and this glorious castle on a hill named Olana,

the home of one of the most important and one of the most famous American painters of the 19th century,

Frederick Church.

That's right.

And we had a great response to that show.

So many people are fans of

landscape painting in the U.S. and the Hudson River School, and also both of those historic sites

that are both open to visitors. And many, many people go every year. Well, today, we have the

great pleasure of speaking about the very subject of Frederick Church, the painter,

with the author of a new book called Glorious Country,

how the artist Frederick Church brought the world to America and America to the world.

Victoria Johnson is a professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College, CUNY,

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