Backlit Clouds
date: label: Date
content: July 1856
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 backlit clouds and sun beams, somewhere over upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. Inclining toward the left half of the composition, a group of loosely-rendered clouds are puffy and layered, while sun rays emanate from behind them and streak across the sky at lower center and lower left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Incomplete atmosphere sketch showing faint outlines of puffy clouds at center right.
place: label: made in
content: New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine, 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: 1917-4-1139-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 9.6 × 14.9 cm (3 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)