The Catskills at Twilight, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1870–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of twilight over the Catskills, as seen from the artist's property near Hudson, New York, known as Olana. The foreground and middle distance are articulated by broad, sweeping strokes of dark greenish brown and brownish purple paint that loosely suggest wooded hills. The Catskill Mountains are visible along the horizon, rendered in a purple tone. Kaaterskill High Peak and Roundtop Mountain are visible at center and center right, respectively. A few puffy clouds hang above the mountains, backdropped by a vivid twilight sky that gradiates from bright, golden yellow along the horizon to a deep, inky blue along the upper margin.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of clouds at sunset over the Hudson River Valley. Layered bands of puffy and wispy clouds stretch across the scene, punctuated with numerous color notations.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: New York, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1348
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 27.9 × 35.9 cm (11 × 14 1/8 in.)