Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of autumn foliage in the hills of Vermont. The foreground consists of a grassy field covered in shadow with a group of loosely rendered trees at left. In the middle distance at center, a yellow-orange tree is brightly illuminated at the base of a hill, which is heavily wooded with brown and orange trees. At left, beyond another, smaller red-orange tree, a distant hill range covered in dark trees forms a rolling horizon in the background. A hazy and cloudy sky is briefly visible above. Dark color palette overall, characterized by browns and muted oranges.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- possibly 1873-1874
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-663-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 14.5 × 23.7 cm (5 11/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Vermont, USA
- place depicted
- Vermont, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-663-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ec146b25-bc97-4c8a-96cb-41d9531d7be0
