Clouds at Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: June 25, 1863 and July 6, 1863
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 the sun setting over the northern portion of the Catskill Escarpment and illuminating numerous clouds above, as seen from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At lower center, the orb of the sun hangs just above a long, puffy cloud bank that stretches over the rugged contour of the northern Catskill Escarpment, which extends out of the frame at lower left. In the sky above, a large, puffy cloud is situated among other longer and wispier clouds--all variously illuminated by the sun.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing views of the sun in a cloudy, hazy sky, likely as seen from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Visible through haze at center, the sun is sandwiched between two long, dark banks of hazy clouds. At upper left, a separate vignette of the sun seen through hazy clouds is included. Included at far right and distinguished by a vertical line is the leftmost fragment of a panoramic view that continues on 1917-4-1011, showing the contour of the rugged mountain ridge.
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: 1917-4-1010
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: 11.9 × 19.5 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)