Thunder Cloud in the Mountains
date: label: Date
content: 1860–75
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of a thunder cloud and other clouds above a vale in the mountains. In the foreground and middle distance, multiple mountain ridges overlap one another as they descend from right to left. A dark, heavily wooded peak is visible at center right. A brightly lit cloud streaks across the sky just above the mountain peaks, around other puffy clouds. At upper right, a dark, shaded thunder cloud looms over the environment.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a loose outline of the Catskill Mountains, viewed from the artist's property near Hudson, New York. Hazy clouds hang above the rolling ridge at center and center right. The scene continues in the more finished 1917-4-1023.
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: 1917-4-1022
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, brush and oxidized white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)