Hudson Valley Sunset, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 6, 1863
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landsacpe sketch showing a view of the sunset in the Hudson River Valley, as seen from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Mixed vegetation fills the foreground, with two prominent stands of trees framing the view at left and right. Rolling, wooded terrain stretches across the middle distance toward a mountain range, which is almost certainly the Catskill Escarpment. In the background at left, a prominent peak is visible. Above, the bottom of the sun is visible as it peaks out from beneath a long, hazy cloud bank.
label: Description
content: Verso: Same sunset scene as recto, but later in the evening, so the sun is closer to the horizon. A rugged mountain ridge forms an undulating horizon with two sharp peaks at left. At center right, the setting sun is nestled in a dip in the mountain range, just before it sinks below the horizon. The sky and landscape is richly colored around it. Above, layers of mixed clouds hang in the sky, variously illuminated by the setting sun. In the lower right corner, another indistinct drawing is contained within a round, dotted line.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place 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: 1917-4-1011
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.6 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)