Two Views of the Sunset from Olana, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1870–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing two stacked views of the summer sunset from the artist's estate near Hudson, New York, known as Olana. At center left, a reddish-purple range--the Catskill Escarpment and specifically Blackhead Mountain--looms over hills and rolling terrain in the middle distance, articulated in shades of green and gray. Above, a low-lying bank of clouds blocks the light of the setting sun, which casts the sky in a tint of orange and brightly illuminates the lower edges of clouds with a golden lining. The clouds themselves are grayish blue. Below, along the lower margin, the same scene at a later time is visible. The same mountain range with Blackhead Mountain is visible along the lower margin, now green instead of red. The clouds have passed and the now deep red sun hovers over the rolling ridge within a gray, gradient sky.
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: 1917-4-1331-a
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: Brush and oil on light orange paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 21.7 × 30.7 cm (8 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.)