Crescent Moon
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 and atmosphere sketch showing a view of the crescent moon in a partially clouded sky, likely seen from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. At upper center, a crescent moon hangs in the sky and illuminates the hazy clouds around it. At lower center, nearby treetops are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of backlit storm clouds billowing above a mountain range, likely viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. Situated at center, one dark, puffy cloud has a bright edge as it looms over a mountain peak--another billowing cloud is faintly rendered behind it. Above, a long, dark cloud banks stretches across the composition.
place: label: place probably depicted
content: New York, USA
label: probably made in
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-1168
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
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.5 cm (4 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)