Mt. Katahdin, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1856 or 1876–1881
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Painted sketch showing a view of Mt. Katahdin from the southern shore of either Togue Pond or Lake Millinocket in Maine. The surface of the pond reflects the warm lavender and blue hues in the sky above and extends from the foreground to the middle distance, where it encounters a wooded spit of land at right and the opposite shoreline at center and left. Dark, rolling hills stretch across the landscape in front of Mt. Katahdin, which looms over the landscape in the background. Rendered in hues of purple and blue, the mountain has a distinctly bulging silhouette with one sharp peak, Baxter, at center. Above, the loosely rendered sky is filled with hazy, light pink and cream clouds, likely at sunset. A patch of blue sky is visible at left.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-756-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 23.1 × 31.7 cm (9 1/8 × 12 1/2 in.)