Lake Road at Olana
date: label: Date
content: 1880-1890
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 road by the lake on the grounds of the artist's estate in New York, known as Olana. Constructed with red slate gravel, the road has a distinctly red-orange hue as it curves from the foreground into the background, tapering as it goes. Dappled sunlight falls upon the road in the foreground and background, and helps illuminate the dark, parallel ruts made by carriages. The road is lined with three mature trees at left, while a fourth grows diagonally over the water's surface, which extends from the middle distance into the background at left. A distant mountain range is visible in the extreme background, beyond the lake. A wall of foliage resembling a hedgerow lines the road at right.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-327-b
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 and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 22.8 × 36.1 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.)