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The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, (painting). Artist:  Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900, painter. Title:  The Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, (painting). Dates:  1867. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  48 5/16 x 84 5/8 in. (122.7 x 214.9 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) F. E. Church / 1867 signed Description:  View looking down over a steamy tropical landscape just after a storm has passed. On the horizon to the left, a rising sun is just visible from behind a storm cloud. A small monastery overlooks a river that runs through the center of the landscape. Subject:  Landscape -- Jamaica Landscape -- Tropic Landscape -- Time -- Sunrise Landscape -- River Architecture exterior -- Religious -- Monastery Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1905.21 Provenance:  Bequest of Colt, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis, 1867-1905. References:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974. "Frederic Edwin Church," Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 206-107. "The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 177. Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica," Hudson, NY: Olana Partnership and Cornell University Press, 2010, pg. 15. Illustration:  Image on file. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 28. Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica," Hudson, NY: Olana Partnership and Cornell University Press, 2010, pg. 15. "The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 188. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 06910231   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 06910231 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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