Cloudy Sky, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1889
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of a cloudy sky over flat terrain in Mexico. Dark, indistinct terrain extends from the foreground to the background, where a flat and loosely rendered mountain is visible at right. Hazy, thin, and variously illuminate clouds inhabit the sky above while, near the horizon, a dotted semicircle indicates the glow of the low sun.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the Mexican stratovolcano called Pico de Orizaba (also known as Citlaltépetl) capped in storm clouds. In the middle distance at lower left, the top of wooded hill is visible. At center, the snow-covered and extremely rugged mountainside of Pico de Orizaba dominates the composition. Billowing storm clouds crown the mountain's unseen peak and appear to pour rain or snow on the right slope.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
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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: 1917-4-250
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 17.1 cm (4 × 6 3/4 in.)