El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 21, 28, or 29, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view of a canyon known to Church as the El Yemen Valley, encountered during his expedition to Petra. Located in the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yemin in the present-day Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in southern Israel, the desolate canyon is made up of a kind of chalky yellow-brown stone. Here, the foreground is sketchily rendered only in graphite before transitioning to oil roughly half way up. The canyon's converging slopes meet at center to form a narrow floor. Cliffs in the background and at right consist of visible bands of layered rock strata. Above, the sky is gentle gradient from yellow to blue.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
label: place depicted
content: Israel
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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: 1917-4-844
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.8 × 50.9 cm (12 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.)