Sunset Across the Hudson Valley, Winter
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing view of a winter sunset over the Catskills, as seen from Church's farm on Long Hill. Foreground hillside covered in snow and descends from right to left. Barren trees in foreground at left. Silhouette of Catskill Escarpment visible in distance, painted in dark purple. The setting sun peeks over the ridgeline as it illuminates the clouds in an orange tint. Sky above a hue of blue-green.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- 1870–80
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-330-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard.
- Dimensions
- 25.2 × 32.8 cm (9 15/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
- place depicted
- New York, 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_1917-4-330-a
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f13cca3d-cd42-4842-8ac8-39d4177e98f1
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