American Falls Under a Cloudy Sky, Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1856 or 1858
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 American Falls and Goat Island from the American side of the Niagara River. The undulating edge of the falls extends from the foreground to the middle distance, where it encounters Goat Island and its abundant vegetation--visible at center and left. In the foreground at left, a tree and other foliage is shown.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a distant view of Horseshoe Falls, the wooded banks of the Niagara River beyond, and a cloudy sky above, as seen from the American bank of the Niagara River. At center left, the Terrapin Tower is visible at the edge of the falls, while the waters of the Niagara River extend to wooded banks behind it. A mixture of puffy, billowing clouds are variously lit in the sky above.
place: label: place depicted
content: USA/Canada
label: made in
content: USA/Canada
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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: 1917-4-150
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
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 and oxidized white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 9.7 × 15.2 cm (3 13/16 in. × 6 in.)