The American Falls in Snow, Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: March 20, 1856
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 American Falls from the northwest, on the opposite bank of the Niagara River. The river's swift waters flow from right to left through the foreground. Frontally viewed, the American Falls spans horizontally across the middle distance at it drops ribbons of flowing over its craggy edge. The immense boulders and rocks at its base are covered in snow and ice, highlighted in white gouache. At left and right, cliffs topped with trees hem in the falls. The cliff at right belongs to Goat Island. Throughout the scene, hazy mist is rendered in white gouache.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished landscape sketch showing a view of the southern end of the American Falls with the edge of Goat Island at right, which hosts several leafless trees.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, 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: 1917-4-54-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: Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 39.5 cm (10 13/16 × 15 9/16 in.)