The Sun and Sky
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: Atmosphere sketch showing a view of the sun and a variety of clouds that it illuminates. At center, the orb of the sun is veiled by hazy clouds. Above a column of light is reflected off of the layered clouds, which are a dynamic mix of wispy and puffy.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a loosely-rendered view of a long bank of puffy clouds in a dark sky. The landscape below is not rendered.
place: label: probably made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place probably depicted
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: 1917-4-1008-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: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 22 cm (4 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.)