Sky Sketch
date: label: Date
content: 1873–74
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a bright, partially cloud sky--possibly at sunset and likely viewed over Vermont. At center and upper center, a mixture of wispy cirri and puffy cumulous clouds are backlit by a bright sun.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a heavily wooded mountain ridge and nearby trees, likely in Vermont. In the middle distance at right, a billowing group of trees are shown on slightly arching terrain. A mountain ridge covered in trees extends across the horizon in the background with a sharp peak at upper left. The trees give the ridge a vibrant, serrated appearance.
place: label: probably made in
content: Vermont, USA
label: place probably depicted
content: Vermont, 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: 1917-4-230
objectType: 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: 11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)