Maine Surf, Mt. Desert Island
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Seascape sketch showing view of waves breaking in a rocky tide pool along the Maine coast. Sky is rendered in a greyish light purple, rocks are a deep brown. Churning green seawater crashes against the rock at center and right, producing white foam. Dark orange ground is visible along lower margin.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- 1850-1851
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-798-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- seascapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 30.7 × 40.8 cm (12 1/16 × 16 1/16 in.)
- made in
- Maine, 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_1917-4-798-a
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d6d9557f-ee72-4ca1-a023-b18c3a3501c7
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