Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of brightly colored clouds at sunset, likely in the Hudson River Valley. The foreground is an indistinct expanse of green, presumably a sloping, grassy hill that leads down to a river (possibly the Hudson)--a dark purple/brown band that snakes horiztonally across the composition in the middle distance. Rolling terrain appears to extend into the background, where layered bands of vividly-illuminated pink clouds hang over the landscape. At center, a particular bright cloud is rendered in thick impasto. Patches of the deep blue-green sky are visible through the cloud banks.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- 1860–1880
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-1357
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 28.3 × 36.4 cm (11 1/8 × 14 5/16 in.)
- place probably depicted
- New York, USA
- probably made in
- 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_1917-4-1357
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f9291c09-6a2a-4f86-98ec-55373eb09fa9
