Wild Sugar Cane, 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
1917-4-677
About this artwork
Landscape sketch showing four stalks of wild sugar cane growing in a lush mountain valley in Jamaica. In the foreground at right, a dirt path is briefly visible before it curves out of the frame at right. At center, tall, green stalks of sugar cane grow vertically out of the mountainside to the left of the path. Evenly spaced, their leaves are slender and pointed. Below them, three other stalks bend to the left while a small sapling grows beside them at right. In the middle distance, two lush mo...