Sunset over Hilltops, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826â1900
August 1865
Classification
landscapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-418-a
About this artwork
Landscape sketch showing a view of a vividly illuminated cloud at sunset above steep, lush hilltops in Jamaica. In the foreground at right, a hill descends to the left, visually overlapping another verdant ridge in the middle distance at left. In the distance at center, a monumental billowing cloud catches the vibrant red and pink light of the setting sun, which also casts warm hues on the surrounding clouds. Behind, the evening sky is shown as a gradient from deep blue, above, to yellow-green a...