Maine Lake, Sunset
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1856
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 the warm, setting sun reflecting off the surface of a lake in Maine, probably near Mt. Katahdin and possibly on Mt. Desert Island. In the foreground at left, several semi-submerged rocks reflect the red light of the setting sun as small plants grow nearby. The lake extends from the foreground into the middle distance, where it encounters the lake's heavily wooded opposite shoreline. A sailboat travels across the lake at center right as its sails are touched in the sun's red light. In the background, wooded, rugged hills (whose ruggedness suggests the Katahdin region over Mt. Desert Island) extend into the distance while the atmosphere above glows in a hazy, burnt red.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place possibly depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-389
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 and graphite on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: 15.3 × 25.6 cm (6 × 10 1/16 in.)