Palm Trees, West Indies by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 caribbean Within this surreal theater

Within this surreal theater

In Santa Fe

The map is rich with symbols of regional pride

and anyone drawn to serene natural scenes—ideal for Christmas

The original artist is uncredited—an anonymous studio illustrator working in the golden age of poster art—yet their hand is unmistakable: bright color blocks

Palm Trees, West Indies by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 caribbean Within this surreal theaterPalm Trees, West Indies (1865) by Frederic Edwin Church captures the luxuriant heart of the Caribbean tropics with an intimacy rare in 19thcentury American landscape painting. Instead of a distant alpine panorama, Church invites you beneath the towering crowns of palms and into dense, sunwarmed foliage. A leading figure of the Hudson River School, he channels the eras fascination with nature and farflung places into a luminous study of place and