Clouds over Olana, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 28, 1871
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 large clouds over the Hudson River landscape, as seen from Church's home, called Olana, near Hudson, New York. The puffy, billowing forms of this towering cloud bank extend across the horizon, with hazy, high-altitude clouds shown above. These clouds have relatively flat bottoms.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of sunlight shining off of the surface of the Hudson River, as viewed from Church's home near Hudson, New York, called Olana. Positioned along the upper portion, the river stretches horizontally across the composition. Noted as being "red," the river likely reflects the light of the setting sun. A nearby bank or hill with vegetation is shown closest to the viewer in the foreground.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-1038
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white chalk on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite and white chalk
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 17.9 cm (4 15/16 × 7 1/16 in.)