Sketch of the Sky
date: label: Date
content: 1870–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of a partially cloudy sky at sunrise or sunset. Along the upper margin, numerous wispy clouds are illuminated in shades of ruddy purple and pink, catching the reddish light at the edge of day. The sky behind these clouds is a gradient from light green to light blue, while the landscape below is possibly rendered in a shade of purplish brown at lower right. The lower half of the composition unfinished, showing only the light brown ground color.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-336-b
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil on white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 18.9 × 30.6 cm (7 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.)