Statue Rock, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August–September 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 a rock formation known to Church as "Statue Rock" (but popularly known as "The Southern Cross" before it collapsed in 1976) along the extremely rugged southwestern coastline of Grand Manan Island in Canada. The ocean's surface comprises the foreground and encounters a rocky shore in the middle distance right, which extends obliquely through the composition into the background at left. At center, the roughly columnar Statue Rock/Southern Cross is prominently visible. Wide at its base, the formation tapers upward, culminating with a rock whose shape roughly resembles equal-armed (or square) cross. Behind the cross, the undulating and wooded cliff tops extend horizontally across the composition.
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: 1917-4-397-c
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
label: Dimensions
content: 33.6 × 44.5 cm (13 1/4 × 17 1/2 in.)