Landscape near Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: October 1844 and May 1845
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 clouds over a rolling mountain range--likely the Catskill Escarpment near Catskill, New York. In the middle distance, gently sloping, wooded terrain stretches across the composition. In the background, the undulating outline of a mountain range forms a horizon beneath layers of puffy and hazy clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view from a wooded mountaintop surrounded by misty clouds, likely in the Catskill Mountains. In the foreground, five or six evergreen trees grow out of rocky and rugged terrain, mostly located at center. Above, the jagged outline of a nearby cloud that dominates (or obscures) the view is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1435
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.9 cm (4 11/16 × 7 7/16 in.)