Late Afternoon Sun Above a River
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1860
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 the bright afternoon sun in a hazy sky above a wide, rapidly flowing river, possibly the Niagara River in New York. In the foreground at left, the tops of nearby trees are visible while a pair of rocks are partially submerged at lower right. The river's rushing waters, capped in white, extend across the middle distance to the heavily-wooded opposite shoreline. Above, the stark bright sun radiates white light in all directions in an otherwise open but hazy sky. Light green ground is visible along the lower margin.
place: label: possibly made in
content: New York, USA
label: place possibly depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1364
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 cream paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 21.2 × 14.4 cm (8 3/8 × 5 11/16 in.)