Rainy Season in the Tropics
Frederic Edwin Church
Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
A double rainbow arcs across a misted gorge, sunlight cutting through sheets of rain. Palms glisten, vegetation spills forward, and two figures in red stand almost invisible against the scale of it all. A card for moments when the world feels larger than us, and beauty arrives uninvited.
This work is part of the permanent collection at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Rainy Season in the Tropics
Frederic Edwin Church
Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
A double rainbow arcs across a misted gorge, sunlight cutting through sheets of rain. Palms glisten, vegetation spills forward, and two figures in red stand almost invisible against the scale of it all. A card for moments when the world feels larger than us, and beauty arrives uninvited.
This work is part of the permanent collection at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco