Sunset near Niagara Falls
date: label: Date
content: September 1856
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 a brightly-lit sunset sky above a line of treetops near Niagara Falls. In the middle distance, dark treetops unify to form a billowing mass across the composition. At center, a low-lying and puffy bank of clouds is backlit by the setting sun, resulting in a luminous silver lining at center. Above, long, wispy, layered bands of clouds are highlighted in white gouache to indicate their high level of luminosity as they reflect the setting sun's light.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Niagara Falls, 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: 1917-4-501
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 light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 15.3 × 31 cm (6 × 12 3/16 in.)