Cloudy Sky, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 1870
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing layers of puffy and hazy cloud over or near Hudson, New York. In the lower half, the contours of multiple billowing clouds overlap one another. Above, the sky is filled with hazy, high altitude clouds, articulated as loose diagonal strokes. At upper center, the sun or moon glows through this thin veil of clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Portion of a panorama showing a loosely-rendered view of billowing clouds at sunset over a rolling, wooded landscape. An anthropomorphic cloud that resembles the head of a person is included at upper left.
place: 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: 1917-4-1101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white crayon on green laid paper; verso: graphite and brown crayon
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.6 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)