Clouds over the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1860–1880
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 bright, cloudy sky–likely near sunset–over the Catskill Escarpment, looking northwest from a location on or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Rolling, heavily wooded terrain comprises the foreground and middle distance with Cairo Round Top visible as a solitary prominence in front of the rugged Catskill Escarpment, which forms a jagged contour across the horizon. Acra Point and Windham High Peak are visible at center while North Mountain is shown at far left. Above, layers of puffy and wispy clouds let beams of sunlight through their sporadic breaks and are highlighted in white gouache.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of puffy clouds over Kaaterskill Clove, seen from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. The shorter, rounded prominence at center, beside the clove itself, is South Mountain, while North Mountain is the taller, flatter mountain at right. At left, the twin peaks of Kaaterskill High and Roundtop are visibly crowned in low-lying clouds.
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: 1917-4-1023
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 oxidized white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.3 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)