Niagara from the American Side, New York
date: label: Date
content: possibly August 1858
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape photograph/sketch showing a view of Niagara Falls from the American side, in New York. In this work, the artist sketched in graphite and oil paint onto a photograph known as an albumen silver print. The view includes a treetop at lower right and a cliffside with vegetation in the foreground at left. Beyond it, the American Falls lead to Goat Island, which then leads to the curving Horseshoe Falls, which extends horizontally across the composition in the middle distance. In the background, dark gray and white clouds hang above the heavily wooded bank of the Niagara River. The artist has whited out the treetop at lower right, painted the rich blue-green hue of the river's water onto the falls at center, and articulated the distant sky and riverbank in oil. At center right, an immense plume of mist kicked up by the falls is visible. Graphite guiding or perspectival lines intersect at center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed landscape sketches showing, at left, an extremely loosely rendered view of the American Falls, while, oppositely oriented at upper right, a framed scene of a castle on a hill in a mountainous landscape at sunset is included.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: USA/Canada
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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: 1917-4-1350
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint, graphite over albumen silver print mounted on white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 32.7 × 29.6 cm (12 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)