Cloud Sketch, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: possibly 1873
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of dark and billowing clouds over a mountain ridge near Hudson, New York. At lower center, large, billowing, white cloud is loosely rendered above a sharply undulating mountain ridge at lower right. In the background at left, several layers of shaded, puffy clouds are visible in an otherwise dark sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of Hudson River Valley at twilight, looking south from the artist's property in Hudson, New York, known as Olana. A wide portion of the Hudson River near the village of Catskill is visible in the middle distance at center, flanked by dark and loosely rendered banks. At right, the southern portion of the Catskill Escarpment forms a serrated horizon with Ashokan High Point and Overlook Mountain visible at center right. Dark, puffy clouds just above the horizon while the crescent moon is included at upper left.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-991-b
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: 11.5 × 19.6 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)