Clouds over Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: September 1858
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 cloud-filled sky above the edge of Niagara Falls, likely viewed from the Canadian bank of the Niagara River. The top of the falls is minimally articulated, with one small ribbon of cascading water visible at center. The heavily wooded and loosely rendered opposite bank stretches across the composition while billowing clouds are highlighted in white gouache just above the horizon. A large cloud bank occupies the majority of the sky, otherwise.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-993-b
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 45.6 cm (10 3/4 × 17 15/16 in.)