Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1865–1875
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of the summer sunset over the Catskills, as view from a point near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, a grassy slope at right descends to the river's shore. At lower center, a steamboat is shown traveling down the river, which, itself, stretches across the middle distance along with its heavily wooded opposite shoreline. Foothills are visible just beyond the shore, while the Catskill Escarpment extends across the horizon, with Blackhead Mountain visible at far left and Windham High Peak at center left. Shown at center, the bright yellow orb of the sun illuminates the clouds and sky around it in fiery, saturated shades of orange and red. The sky is delineated into an upper portion, rendered in shades of blue and green, which hosts puffy groups of light and dark clouds.
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: 1917-4-1373
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 19.4 × 28.6 cm (7 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)