Cloud Sketch
date: label: Date
content: 1870–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of a cloudy sunset sky, likely looking southwest from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. Brownish, rolling terrain extends horizontally across the composition at center, rising at right possibly to Overlook Mountain. The landform at far right merges with the dark, purple-brown cloud that hangs above it, while in the background, the setting sun illuminates a wide bank of clouds that dominates the sky, while leaving a sliver of greenish-blue sky visible along the horizon.
place: label: probably 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: 1917-4-762
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil on white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 22.6 × 36.2 cm (8 7/8 × 14 1/4 in.)