Cloudy Sky over a Wooded Coast
date: label: Date
content: 1856–1881
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 brightly-lit clouds at sunset or sunrise above a loosely rendered and heavily wooded coastline, visible at left. The ocean's flat, wide horizon stretches across the composition to the right, while mixed puffy and wispy clouds are highlighted in white gouache above.
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: 1917-4-935-b
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 45.5 cm (10 3/4 × 17 15/16 in.)