Clouds at Sunset, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: February and March 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of the sun setting behind a billowing cloud bank over Hudson, New York. A puffy cloud bank forms an undulating contour across the composition, partially obscuring the sun, which is visible at lower left and sends a beam of light through the hazy atmosphere above the clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing the second part of a panoramic view of morning clouds in the sky above the Hudson River Valley near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Evenly-spaced bands of brightly-lit clouds at sunrise arch across the sky at center. These clouds are a detail of a larger view of the sky at sunrise.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place 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: 1917-4-1167-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)