Sunset Sketch
date: label: Date
content: August and September 1844
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 a dramatic sunset, either over Hartford, Connecticut, or Catskill, New York. At center, the sun, partially obscured by puffy clouds, sends crepuscular rays (or sun beams) radiating in every direction. It floats just above a rolling and faintly rendered horizon. Puffy clouds at upper center are loosely articulated.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch of two sleeping pigs lying down, likely at Thomas Cole's farm in Catskill, New York. The pig at left lies in right profile, while the pig at right faces forward.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, NY, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: possibly made in
content: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
label: place possibly depicted
content: Hartford, Connecticut, 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: 1917-4-1392
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.6 × 38.7 cm (10 1/16 × 15 1/4 in.)