Clouds at Sunset, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: August 1865
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 view of a brilliantly vibrant sunset over the lush mountains of Jamaica. In the foreground, a round, wooded hill at right gives way to overlapping ridges in the middle distance at left. Above, a billowing prominence in a dense, low-lying cloud bank is cleaved in half by the sun's bright, golden-orange light. The orb of the sun itself is visible at center, as it colors both distant and nearby clouds in vivid hues of red, pink, orange, and yellow. In the background, the evening sky is rendered as a gradient from blue to yellow-green.
place: label: place depicted
content: Jamaica
label: made in
content: Jamaica
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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: 1917-4-409-b
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 on brown paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 25.8 × 30.6 cm (10 3/16 × 12 1/16 in.)