Sunset over a Mountainous Landscape
date: label: Date
content: July or September 1860
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 clouds at sunset over a mountainous landscape, likely in upstate New York or Mount Desert Island in Maine. A rolling mountain ridge creates an undulating horizon along the lower portion of the composition. Puffy clouds and long cloud banks intermingle in the sky above, and are noted as being red, gold, and orange.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-968-b
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.8 × 19 cm (4 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)