Cloud Sketch, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: August 6, 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmospheric sketch showing a view of billowing cumulus clouds towering over the landscape near Catskill, New York. Various layers of these clouds climb into the sky and are brightly lit at their tops. Below, a flat landscape is minimally rendered at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches showing a loosely and incompletely rendered figure at left, who appears to walk to the right, and the top of a bull's head with its horns at center.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1425
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: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.8 × 18.9 cm (4 5/8 × 7 7/16 in.)