Autumn in the Hills of Vermont
date: label: Date
content: possibly 1873-74
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 autumn foliage in the hills of Vermont. The foreground consists of a grassy field covered in shadow with a group of loosely rendered trees at left. In the middle distance at center, a yellow-orange tree is brightly illuminated at the base of a hill, which is heavily wooded with brown and orange trees. At left, beyond another, smaller red-orange tree, a distant hill range covered in dark trees forms a rolling horizon in the background. A hazy and cloudy sky is briefly visible above. Dark color palette overall, characterized by browns and muted oranges.
place: label: made in
content: Vermont, USA
label: place depicted
content: Vermont, 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: 1917-4-663-b
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 tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 14.5 × 23.7 cm (5 11/16 × 9 5/16 in.)