Sailboat and Crashing Wave
date: label: Date
content: June 1845
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed, loosely-rendered sketches showing, at upper center, a single masted sailboat viewed in right profile, while, at lower center, a crashing ocean wave is show frontally as it stretches across the composition.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch showing a group of men and women gathered in a semicircle and viewed from the rear. At center, three women are shown wearing bonnets and shawls, while the head of a man wearing a brimmed hat is visible between their shoulders at center. At left, another man lies on the ground on his side. At right, other figures, or perhaps plants, are loosely-rendered.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1424
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)