Twilight, Color Effects
date: label: Date
content: 1860–1880
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 loosely rendered view of brightly colored clouds at sunset, likely in the Hudson River Valley. The foreground is an indistinct expanse of green, presumably a sloping, grassy hill that leads down to a river (possibly the Hudson)--a dark purple/brown band that snakes horiztonally across the composition in the middle distance. Rolling terrain appears to extend into the background, where layered bands of vividly-illuminated pink clouds hang over the landscape. At center, a particular bright cloud is rendered in thick impasto. Patches of the deep blue-green sky are visible through the cloud banks.
place: label: place probably depicted
content: New York, USA
label: probably made in
content: 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: 1917-4-1357
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 on tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.3 × 36.4 cm (11 1/8 × 14 5/16 in.)