Mountains and Clouds, Mexico
date: label: Date
content: 1890
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 clouds above mountain ranges in Mexico. A flat expanse, possibly the surface of a body of water, comprises the foreground while, in the middle distance, a heavily wooded prominence rises at right, with a series of other hills at center and left. In the background a rugged range of mountains is visible, including two sharp peaks at center and right. At far left, a dark cloud blocks and is backlit by the light of the sun and separates it into rays which radiate into the sky and across the scene. A stark line signaling the cloud's shadow is visible at left against the background mountains.
place: label: made in
content: Mexico
label: place depicted
content: Mexico
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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: 1917-4-1227-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.2 × 16.4 cm (4 × 6 7/16 in.)