Clouds over Mountains
date: label: Date
content: June 1874
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of clouds over a rugged mountain range, likely in the Hudson River Valley. A sharp, undulating mountain ridge stretches across the composition while layers of puffy and wispy clouds are variously lit in the sky above. The tops of two billowing cumulus clouds are visible peaking over the ridge at center:
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a long, puffy cloud bank in front of the sun, which casts a glowing halo behind the clouds and sends a vertical column of light down through the hazy atmosphere below. Other light, wispy clouds are loosely rendered at center and right.
place: label: probably made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place probably 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: 1917-4-1008-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 21.8 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)