Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 24, 1863
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing an oblique view of the Catskill Escarpment and the dynamic twilight sky above, as viewed from a point on or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Rolling, wooded terrain stretches across the middle distance leading to a large, lone prominence known as Cairo Round top, visible at center left. Just beyond it, the Catskill Escarpment extends across the horizon and obliquely into the distance. Blackhead Mountain is shown in shadow at left while Acra Point and Windham High Peak are visible along the ridge at right. Long wispy clouds stretch across the sky above and intermingle with puffy clouds variously illuminated by the setting sun at dusk.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of a large thunderhead and other puffy clouds over a mountain with twin, rounded peaks at lower right. Other light effects in the sky are loosely rendered above. Likely in or near Hudson, New York.
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: 1917-4-1016
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)