Get the first look of The Church’s Summer Exhibition This Land: Considering the American Landscape.
The Church is delighted to announce our Summer 2026 exhibition, This Land: Considering the American Landscape, curated by Donna De Salvo and Seph Rodney, opening on June 20 and on view through September 6. Responding to the prompt ‘What is the American landscape?,’ a question timed to reflect this year of our nation’s 250th anniversary, De Salvo and Rodney have conceived of a transhistorical exhibition that explores artistic responses to the American landscape both at its inception and today.
The presentation will feature important works by artists associated with the Hudson River School, often thought to be the first true American art movement. Pivotal loans from neighboring institutions underscore the cultural and artistic history of the region: the Parrish Art Museum, the East End’s oldest institution, founded in 1898, will contribute Hudson River School paintings by Asher B. Durand, Thomas Doughty, Charles Henry Miller, Thomas Moran, Mary Nimmo Moran, and Albert Pinkham Ryder, highlighting the Parrish’s collection and role in presenting American art; Guild Hall, founded in 1931, will lend a painting by Thomas Moran, who was based in East Hampton, underscoring the legacy of the institution as a meeting place for area artists with its galleries and theater; and Dia Art Foundation, who will be lending selections of Hudson River School works on paper which they acquired in consultation with Dan Flavin as part of their long-term relationship with the artist, a partnership that also included the founding of the Dan Flavin Art Institute at Dia Bridgehampton.
