The Great Basin of Mount Katahdin, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1877
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 detailed view of Chimney Pond and the Great Basin of Mt. Katahdin in Maine, viewed from the northern shore of the pond. The water's dark surface comprises the immediate foreground and encounters the sloping and heavily wooded opposite shoreline in the middle distance. Behind, the northern face of Mt. Katahdin rises abruptly into the low-lying clouds, which obscure its rocky, serrated ridge in a diaphanous veil of glowing mist. The mountainside itself has vegetation and undergrowth on its lower slopes and is rugged and bald closer to the ridge. Thinly applied, the paint frequently reveals the underlying light brown ground. In the upper left, upper right, and lower left corners, paint is absent around pinholes, suggesting that Church himself pinned the paperboard to an easel or other support.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-609-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 36.3 × 22.5 cm (14 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.)