Mountain Ridges, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 1844 and June 1845
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 mountain ridges in or near Catskill, New York, that extend from the foreground to the horizon, viewed from an elevated perspective. A nearby tree is visible in the foreground at left. In the middle distance, three rugged mountain ridges are layered one in front of the other as they march toward a rolling horizon in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a massive, billowing storm cloud in the distance near Catskill, New York. The cloud's towering, puffy forms stretch horizontally across the composition, while rain might be shown at lower left, indicated by diagonal striations. At upper center, a vignette showing a detail of the cloud is included.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1001-a
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)