Clouds over Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: probably 1850
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 clouds over hilly terrain on Mt. Desert Island in Maine. A rolling ridge is rendered in dark bluish-purple at lower right and gives way to the lateritious (brick-colored) ground color along the remainder of the lower margin. Just above it at left, a billowing cloud bank with three peaks is touched on its right by the sun's bright light. Other bands of wispy clouds stretch horizontally across the sky as they catch the warm, creamy-orange light of the setting sun. The sky is otherwise open and dark blue.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-557-a
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 on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 16.7 × 40.6 cm (6 9/16 × 16 in.)