Sunset in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: June 30, 1866
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing the sunset over mountains in or near the Hudson River Valley, likely the Catskill Escarpment as seen from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. The outlines of rolling, rugged mountain ridges stretch across the composition, with multiple prominent peaks at center and left. Above, layers of alternating puffy and wispy clouds are brightly it by the setting sun, which radiates beams of light from behind the distant mountain at center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of the darkening twilight sky over mountains in the Hudson River Valley, possibly the Catskill Escarpment as seen from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. At left, a rugged range of mountain peaks descends to flat terrain at right, while above, layers of shaded clouds hang in the darkening sky.
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: 1917-4-1083
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 11.9 x 21.7 cm (4 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)