Frederic Edwin Church · 1877
El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)
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A misty tropical river at dawn, palms and vines crowding the bank, a canoeist and a flock of birds under a hazy sun — Church's last large South American canvas, also known as Morning in the Tropics. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 18.6 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)
El Rio de Luz is Church's last large-scale painting of South America, following The Andes of Ecuador (1855) and The Heart of the Andes (1859). Like them it is a composite of sketches he made on his travels there about twenty years earlier. It is more local and intimate than the earlier canvases, and the viewpoint is low enough that a viewer might stand there. The critic William Crary Brownell dismissed it in 1880 as a magnificent drop-curtain rather than painting.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.
All Frederic Edwin Church prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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