Thunderhead above Buildings, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1868–70
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and architecture sketch showing a view of a towering thunderhead above a mountainous landscape with buildings--likely on or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. An immense, billowing column of a cloud that widens at its top (a thunderhead) dominates the composition at center, and has several other billowing, vaporous forms at its base. In the foreground at left, the tops of multiple buildings are loosely sketched. In the background, a group of bulging mountains are visible at right. A dark blotch of ink is visible at lower right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture and atmosphere sketch showing views of early building plans for Olana and billowing clouds in Hudson, New York. At right, two architectural plans are stacked atop each other: above, an imagined elevation of Olana shows it with a tower and a pointed roof; below, a floor plan that roughly resembles an equal-armed or square cross is visible around other rectangular forms. At left and oriented to the left is a view an immense, billowing cloud bank below a dark sky. Finally, at upper left, an early imagined view of Olana is included. It is notably missing its primary belltower.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-1521
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 tan laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.9 × 20.7 cm (6 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.)