Twilight over the Hudson River, Hudson, New York, Part Two
date: label: Date
content: 1860–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of the Hudson River Valley, looking southwest from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. The top of a wooded hill is visible in the foreground, while, in the background, the dark, rolling range of the southern Catskill Escarpment stretches across the horizon with Overlook Mountain visible at center. In the sky above, streaks of light radiate over several dark, puffy clouds.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sun setting over a body of water, viewed from beyond a nearby hill or embankment with buck wheat. At center, the silhouette of the sun's glow is visible as it begins to dip below the horizon. A bird, possibly a seagull, flies in front of the sun at center.
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: 1917-4-1026
objectType: 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.)