Thunder Clouds, Jamaica by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 Size:33x60in (84x150cm) and Piave—fan across the lowlands

and Piave—fan across the lowlands

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Thunder Clouds, Jamaica by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 Size:33x60in (84x150cm) and Piave—fan across the lowlandsThunder Clouds, Jamaica (1865) by Frederic Edwin Church captures a moment when the Caribbean sky holds its breathsunlight glows at the horizon even as towering storm banks gather their strength. A leading painter of the Hudson River School, Church was celebrated for his sweeping, meticulously observed landscapes and for traveling widely to study dramatic weather and light firsthand. In this luminous canvas from 1865, he turns to Jamaicas tropical