Rainy Season in the Tropics

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Rainy Season in the Tropics is a monumental 19th-century landscape painting by Frederic Edwin Church that dramatically depicts a lush, storm-swept tropical environment with vivid atmospheric effects.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf landscape painting
painting
artisticFocus light and atmosphere
sublime nature
collection de Young Museum
colorPalette vivid
countryOfOrigin United States
creator Frederic Edwin Church
creatorBirthName Frederic Edwin Church
creatorBirthPlace Hartford, Connecticut
creatorNationality American
depicts atmospheric effects
dramatic sky
interaction of light and storm clouds
lush vegetation
mountains
rainbow
rainstorm
rainy season
river
storm clouds
sunlight breaking through clouds
tropical climate
tropical forest
tropical landscape
waterfalls
exhibitionHistory exhibited in the United States in the late 19th century
genre landscape art
hasPart background mountains
double rainbow
dramatic cloud formations
foreground vegetation
middle-ground river valley
inception 1866
inspiredBy South American travels of Frederic Edwin Church
tropical environments
location Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
materialUsed oil paint
movement Hudson River School
notableWorkOf Frederic Edwin Church
partOf Hudson River School paintings
period 19th century
style luminism
romantic landscape
subjectMatter dramatic weather
idealized tropical nature
surface canvas

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church
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