Clouds at Sunset, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1860–70
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of billowing clouds in a twilight sky above the rolling terrain of the Hudson River Valley, likely viewed from or near the artist's estate in Hudson, New York. At lower right, two bushes are visible beside a distant and rolling horizon made up of low mountains. Above, puffy clouds float around a dark and billowing cloud that towers into the sky at center. At upper right, what are likely several starts are visible in the sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of billowing clouds over the northern portion of the Catskill Escarpment, viewed from or near the artist's estate in Hudson, New York. At lower left, Windham High Peak and Acra Point are visible, with rolling ridges that descend at center. In the sky above, horizontal bands of clouds partially obscure a massive, billowing cloud behind them. Line quality is fine.
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: 1917-4-1169
objectType: 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
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)