Clouds above the Catskills at Sunset, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1870–1880
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 clouds at sunset behind the Catskill Mountains, viewed from near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, the lightly wooded east bank of the Hudson River is loosely rendered in brown tones. The river itself, comprising the remainder of the foreground, reflects the light from above as it extends to the heavily wooded opposite bank. Dark, rolling terrain extends through the middle distance and includes the large hill known as Cairo Round Top at center left. The Catskill Escarpment itself descends across the horizon from left to right, and includes the summit of Blackhead Mountain at center left. Above, the light of the setting sun emanates through a break between a low-lying cloud bank and higher elevation clouds. A cloud positioned at center casts a long, dark shadow across the sky and thus makes visible the sun's light. Parts of the clouds are highlighted in a rosy-gold.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed pencil sketches including a square frame and several indistinct designs, including lines curving around stacked pairs of cirlces.
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: 1917-4-335-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 tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.4 × 35.6 cm (11 3/16 × 14 in.)