The Moon over Clouds, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: October 13, 1870
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing the moon shining over a cloud-filled Hudson River Valley, viewed from an elevated perspective on the artist's property near Hudson, New York. The tops of puffy, low-lying clouds extend from the foreground to the middle distance, where they encounter a dark, shaded landscape. In the background, the rolling contour of the Catskill Escarpment forms the horizon. Above, hazy, high-altitude clouds hang in the sky, illuminated by the moon in the upper left corner.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of rain and mist above the mountainous terrain of the Hudson River Valley, likely viewed from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At lower right, a darkened hillside is shown in front of the outline of another rolling ridge. At upper center, a break in the mist reveals a view of a massive, billowing storm cloud. The sky is otherwise occupied by vertical and diagonal striations that indicate mist and rain.
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: 1917-4-693
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on green laid paper; verso
label: Dimensions
content: 12.6 × 17.6 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)