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| Keywords: 1872, Church, Frederic Edwin, Passing Shower in the Tropics.jpg en Frederic Edwin Church American 1826 “1900 Passing Shower in the Tropics 1872 Oil on canvas 31 x 51 cm 12 3/16 x 20 1/16 in frame 41 8 × 62 5 × 3 1 cm 16 7/16 × 24 5/8 × 1 1/4 in Museum purchase y1945-212 Frederic Church was the primary pupil of the Hudson River School ™s founder Thomas Cole who imparted to his technically gifted student the notion of landscape painting as a vehicle for conveying ideas about history divinity and the human condition These concepts were complemented by the writings of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt whose Cosmos inspired Church to visit South America in search of sublime subject matter with which to express his pantheistic apprehension of the natural world Church produced a series of spectacular paintings of tropical scenes that combine panoramic scope with precise accurate detail proposing and offering revelation through scientific knowledge Passing Shower in the Tropics a modestly scaled iteration of these South American subjects shares with other later examples of the type a focus on atmospheric effects and the apparent representation of an amalgam of locations rather than a single particular site 1872 Princeton University Art Museum Frederic Edwin Church other versions PD-Art American art in the Princeton University Art Museum American paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Modern art in the Princeton University Art Museum Frederic Edwin Church Oil paintings of landscapes Paintings of palms 1870s landscape paintings 1872 paintings | ||||
