Sunset over the Catkills, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1870–1880
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 view of the sun setting behind the Catskill Escarpment, as viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. Indistinct and loosely-rendered wooded terrain comprises the foreground and middle distance, while the mountain range itself forms a rugged horizon in the background. Likely Blackhead Mountain is shown at left while the sun sets just above or between Windham High Peak and Acra Point (indicating that the scene takes place in spring or early summer). The sun itself is rendered in a bright hue of light yellow or white, while the atmosphere and clouds around it are fiery red. Dark gray clouds in the sky above are tinged with this warm, rosy light.
place: label: place depicted
content: New York, USA
label: made in
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: 1917-4-323-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 22.7 x 36.4 cm (8 15/16 x 14 5/16 in.)