Billowing Cloud at Sunset, Hartford, Connecticut
date: label: Date
content: 1850–51
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 billowing cloud at sunset--a scene witnessed in Hartford, Connecticut, and painted at a later point. In the foreground, a placid lake extends into the middle distance at center right as it reflects the ruddy tones of the wooded hills that flank it at left and right. Just above the hill ridge at left, the immense column of a billowing cloud towers into the sky and casts an inverse shadow on the bank of clouds above it. Dominating the sky, these clouds reflect the red and orange tones of the setting sun, which has just dipped below the rolling horizon in the background at center. Patches of greenish blue sky are visible at upper right and just above the horizon.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: Hartford, Connecticut, 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: 1917-4-1367
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil and graphite on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 30 cm (8 7/16 × 11 13/16 in.)