Tree Fern, Jamaica by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 leuven Temple of Osiris

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Tree Fern, Jamaica by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 leuven Temple of OsirisFrederic Edwin Churchs Tree Fern, Jamaica (1865) captures the artists fascination with tropical botany at a moment when the wider worlds appetite for natural history and travel imagery was surging. A leading light of the Hudson River School, Church was celebrated for joining scientific observation with dramatic, painterly vision. Here he narrows his scope to a single Jamaican tree fern, granting it the gravitas of a portrait: sweeping fronds arch