Kilauea (aka Dana Lake_Donna Lake)

This beautiful and glowing landscape depicts an evening view into the eruption at Kilauea in the 1880s. The moonlit caldera with fiery eruptions of orange and red against the dark sky and black lava reflects the drama captured by Volcano School artists like Tavernier, Scovell, and Hitchcock. The painting is unsigned and is entitled "Donna Lake” at the bottom center. When it was painted, the lava lake was called Dana Lake for James Dana, an early volcanologist. During the 1880s, several separate lava lakes formed around Halema’uma’u, including “South Lake,” “New Lake,” and “Dana Lake,” the last of which was named after the famous geologist who visited the lava lakes in 1887.