Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 9, 1866
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 vibrant sunset with bands of clouds arching over the southern end of the Catskill Escarpment, as seen from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. The rugged peaks of the Catskills, including Overlook Mountain, form a jagged horizon as the setting sun illuminates the clouds above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketches of the dark silhouette of a mountain range and, separately, the sun's light reflecting off of clouds, likely observed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. At right, the sun shines its light onto clouds above, loosely forming the shape of an inverted triangle. At left and oriented to the left, a shaded mountain range is shown beneath a dark sky with the moon above at left.
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: 1917-4-1089-b
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 tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 21.9 cm (4 11/16 × 8 5/8 in.)