Cliffs at Southwest Head, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August 1851
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 view of rocky cliffs and the rugged coastline of Southwest Head on Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground, ocean water laps against a rocky shore that ascends, at right, to sheer cliffs and outcroppings made up of geometric pillars of rock known as basalt. Their flat planes and rectangular tops lend this portion of the composition a sense of verticality and pixelation. At far right, the tallest cliff has a wooded top and extends out of view. A sailboat is visible in the background at center, traveling across the ocean near the horizon. Behind it, bright sunset clouds are still visible at 10:00pm (see artist inscription) due to the island's extreme northern position on the globe.
place: label: made in
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, Canada
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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: 1917-4-17-a
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.1 × 39.2 cm (11 1/16 × 15 7/16 in.)