Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of a vibrant sunset in cloudy skies over Jamaica. A treetop is included in the immediate foreground at lower left, while a pointed mountaintop is loosely rendered in the middle distance at center. Lush, green terrain extends indistinctly to a hazy horizon. At center, a puffy, low-lying bank of clouds stretches across the composition and partially obscures the view of a bright patch of orange-red sunlight. The setting sun's light casts the background clouds in a luminous red glow, that fades to gray and white along the upper margin.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- August 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-408-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil on off-white paperboard
- Dimensions
- 21.2 × 28.7 cm (8 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
- place depicted
- Jamaica
- made in
- Jamaica
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-408-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46750e46f-e0c4-4f6c-a3c6-fa23702635b0
