The Goell and Watzmann, near Berchtesgeden by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 Size:31x50in (79x127cm) and an Art Deco fluency

and an Art Deco fluency that marries ornament with clarity

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The Goell and Watzmann, near Berchtesgeden by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 Size:31x50in (79x127cm) and an Art Deco fluencyFrederic Edwin Churchs The Goell and Watzmann, near Berchtesgeden (1868) invites the viewer into a sweeping Romantic panorama of the Bavarian Alps by one of Americas foremost Hudson River School painters. Churchs celebrated eye for geological drama and luminous atmosphere is on full display here: the rugged silhouettes of the Goell and Watzmann mass rise over a quiet valley, their snow touched summits catching a soft blaze of alpine light. Painted at