Clouds and a Bull, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: July and September 1844
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and figure sketches around Catskill, New York, showing a view of a dark, billowing mass of clouds carried leftwards by the wind, at center, while at upper right, a bull with curving horns is faintly sketched from behind.
label: Description
content: Figure and landscape sketches around Catskill, New York, showing, at right, an unfinished view of a figure (ostensibly a male) wearing a cap and a collared shirt or jacket. His left elbow is bent, raising his left hand upward, as he looks downward. At left, an extremely dark, overwrought sketch of three houses in front of trees and a hill is included.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-1289
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
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; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 25.7 × 38.6 cm (10 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)