Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1860–80
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 a vibrant, cloud-filled sunset sky above the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River Valley, likely viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. Two pointed mountain peaks are visible at far left, one of them likely Blackhead Mountain. Beside them at right, a low-lying bank of clouds or fog forms a puffy contour across the horizon. In the lower left corner, the waters of the Hudson River are loosely suggested. In the sky above, puffy and wispy clouds intermingle as they are brightly illuminated by the setting sun.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loosely rendered and seemingly incomplete landscape sketch showing dark clouds at upper right above an indistinct and hastily executed landscape at center right.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place 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: 1917-4-1025
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)