Mountain Landscape at Sunset
date: label: Date
content: 1850–56
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing view of mountain valley at sunset (or possibly sunrise) bounded by two rugged ridges. Stream and bank in foreground extend into green, wooded valley in middle distance at center and left. Mountains on either side are rugged and, at right, crowned with rocky cliffs. Clouds above are illuminated pink and magenta by the light of the setting sun, which also falls on the mountaintop at right.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place probably depicted
content: New Hampshire, 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: 1917-4-417
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 20.4 × 28.1 cm (8 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)