Cloud Sketches, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: August 1871
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing views of clouds over the Hudson River Valley near Hudson, New York. The loosely-rendered scene shows indistinct layers of hazy and puffy clouds spread throughout. The faint outline of a rolling landscape is visible in the lower left corner. Included in the lower right corner is a rectangular vignette of a massive storm cloud with two billowing towers, backdropped by hazy clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of diverse clouds above the Catskill Escarpment, as seen from Church's home near Hudson, New York, called Olana. A mixture of high-altitude, hazy clouds and low, billowing clouds inhabit th sky, while the rugged outline of the Catskills forms the horizon below.
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: 1917-4-1147
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 green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.3 cm (4 15/16 × 6 13/16 in.)