Clouds at Twilight
date: label: Date
content: 1872–82
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of clouds at twilight, likely viewed from the artist's estate in Hudson, New York, known as Olana. In the immediate foreground, several dark treetops are visible along the lower margin. Between two trees at center right, a distant, purple mountain range is shown in the background. Above, a large cloud bank catches the hot red and pink light of the setting sun at center right. At center, a billowing form rises into a largely open, greenish-blue sky. Another dark cloud is visible at upper center.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place probably depicted
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-1331-b
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: 28.3 × 36 cm (11 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.)