Clouds over the Catskills
date: label: Date
content: 1868-1880
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 dramatic sunset over the Catskill Mountains. An undulating mountain ridge spans the horizon along the lower margin, with its high point at center left. Above, a mixture of puffy, billowing clouds and hazy, high-altitude clouds, variously lit by the sinking sun, making for a diverse and dramatic sunset.
place: label: probably made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place probably depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1148
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 and white gouache on green laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.6 × 17.6 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)