Hut in a Mountain Valley, Mexico
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of a hut in a mountain valley in Mexico. Grassy, plain-like terrain extends from the foreground and into the background. At center right, a squat hut with a conical roof is prominently visible, with grazing cattle around it. At left and right, two slopes descend toward the center and hem-in the valley. In the background, an immense rugged and purple mountain rises high into the blue and clear sky.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- 1890–1893
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-615-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 18.8 × 25.3 cm (7 3/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
- made in
- Mexico
- place depicted
- Mexico
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-615-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq403c996b7-b09f-4c62-ba27-fc71a4fded88
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