Radiant Sun above Mountains
date: label: Date
content: 1865–75
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 a view of a radiant, gleaming sun just above a mountain range. A dark hillside with a few trees is visible in the foreground at lower right, descending from center right to lower center. Just beyond and below it at left, another wooded ridge is visible. Across an indeterminate middle distance, a mountain range with a rugged peak at center stretches across the horizon. Just above this peak at upper center, an extremely luminous, hot white sun radiates a bright glow onto the haze and banded, high clouds around it.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1349
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: Brush and oil, graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 25.5 × 40.8 cm (10 1/16 × 16 1/16 in.)