Sunset across the Catskills, Hudson, New York
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: Landscape sketch showing a view of a summer sunset behind the Catskills, likely from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. The last light of the setting sun vibrantly illuminates clouds near the horizon in fiery yellow and orange-red. Sky is a dark olive green while mountains are rendered in dark purple, and foreground in deep evergreen. Light blue ground visible along upper margin.
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: 1917-4-1317
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 24.5 × 43.2 cm (9 5/8 in. × 17 in.)