"The Blue Bird." Oil on canvas 22" X 16" Signed and dated lower right, 1914. Exhibited at the National Academy from 1874-1924. Also at the Brooklyn Art Association, Boston art club and many others. Church was a very popular illustrator. signed F.S. Church and dated 1914 lower right. Church exhibited at the National Academy from 1874-1924; Brooklyn AA 1874-83; Boston Art Club 1880-84,1901-09; Lotus Club; Paris Exposition, and many others After the Civil War, Frederick Stuart Church studied in Chicago before settling in NYC where his illustrations and etchings won him high regard. Church is best remembered as the illustrator of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus. Church's works are in the Metropolitan Mus. of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Detroit Institute of Arts. See the reference American Art Analog Vol.2