The River of Light, Frederic Edwin Church Postcard

The River of Light is a panting by Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826 - 1900). We look through a tropical forest lining a hazy, wide, placid river in this horizontal landscape painting. The trees are covered with climbing vines, and they have gnarled, sprawling branches. Light catches the flat leaves of a palm-like plant close to us to our left, and once we take a closer look and two miniscule black birds with cherry-red chests are perched on a long curving stem. The sun is a small disc of white low in the humid sky amid pale lavender-purple clouds. The sun reflects in the calm surface of the water below, and it brings our attention to a person rowing a canoe, barely visible on the river in the deep, misty distance. Customise it with your own details. For further customisation, please click the "Personalise” link and use our design tool to modify this template.