Sunset at Sea, Canada
date: label: Date
content: June–July 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing a view of a fiery sunset over the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Dark, purple-brown water extends from the foreground into the background, where it forms a flat horizon. Just above the horizon at center, the fiery pinkish-red light of the setting sun illuminates the sky, as well as a long, dark cloud bank the stretches across the horizon. Highlights of crimson red are visible in this cloud at center. Above, the otherwise open sky is rendered in a gradient from green to orange.
place: label: made in
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: place depicted
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-818
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 20.3 × 30 cm (8 × 11 13/16 in.)