Cloud Study, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: March 1871
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a billowing cumulus cloud in tumultuous, stormy skies over the Hudson River Valley, as viewed from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Devoid of topography, the scene highlights the immense, puffy cloud at center left, whose edges are brightly lined in hues of gold and pink. Around it, wispy and whirling clouds largely obscure an otherwise blue sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sunset in the Hudson River Valley, viewed from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, a hastily rendered slope descends from right to left and lower right. The Hudson River is visible in the middle distance at left, while the Catskill Escarpment forms a rugged horizon in the background. Dark, low-lying clouds hang just above the ridge, while sun beams emanate from behind them and stretch vertically across the sky above.
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: 1917-4-586
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.7 × 32.9 cm (10 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)