Evening Rain over the Catskills, 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: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of rain over the Catskills on a summer evening, viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. At upper left, rain showers fall from a large, puffy cloud and are illuminated by the sun, which is behind a billowing tower that is brightly backlit at center left. Other puffy and hazy clouds extend to the right, over the northern portion of the Catskill Escarpment. Acra Point and Windham High Peak are shown beside each other at lower center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of large, billowing cloud banks above the Catskill Mountains, viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. At upper center, a long, dark bank of clouds extends horizontally across the sky, above another puffy cloud that hangs just over a loosely rendered mountain range at lower center. The largest prominence may be Overlook Mountain.
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: 1917-4-1057
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 gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.6 × 17.2 cm (4 15/16 × 6 3/4 in.)