Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World
Fritz Siegfried Georg Melbye (1826-1869), Entrance to the City of St. Domingo, Columbus “Tower,” 1864, oil on canvas, 8 1/2 x 14 1/4 in., OL.1980.1907, Collection Olana State Historic Site 
Charles de Wolf Brownell (1822-1909), Royal Palm, 1862, oil on canvas, 14 3/8 x 10 3/8 in., OL.1981.30, Collection Olana State Historic Site. Olana has loaned two works from its collection to Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art October 2, 2015–January 3, 2016. This exhibition explores the painter Francisco Oller, who contributed greatly to the development of modern art in both Europe and the Caribbean and revolutionized the school of painting in his native Puerto Rico. Olana has loaned Entrance to the City of St. Domingo, Columbus “Tower,”(1864), a work by Fritz Melbye, who accompanied Frederic and Isabel Church on their 1865 trip to Jamaica. Charles de Wolf Brownell’s Royal Palm (1862), given to Frederic Church as a gift, has also been loaned to the exhibit.
Included in the exhibition is Frederic Church’s lovely painting Jamaica(1871), on loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT). For more information about the exhibition and accompanying catalogue click here.