Twilight in the Catskills, Hudson, New York
date: label: Date
content: 1860–80
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape study showing a view of a cloudy twilight sky over the northern end of the Catskill Escarpment, looking northwest from the artist's property in Hudson, New York. Wooded terrain stretches across the foreground while the Hudson River snakes its way through the rolling valley in the middle distance. In the background at left, multiple recognizable mountains are shown: Blackhead Mountain at far left, Acra Point and Windham High Peak at center left, and Cairo Round Top being the shorter, darker prominence in front of them. Long striations of dark and light clouds extend horizontally in the sky above the mountains. The gradient of the setting sun's light is suggested at center right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed figure and landscape sketches showing a view of clouds over the Catskill Mountains and a separate view of a standing woman in a dress, likely recorded in or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. At right, two loosely-rendered cloud banks extend into the sky above a rolling mountain range with a sharp peak at far right. A star is visible at center right. An oblique view of a standing woman wearing a dress and a dark shawl is included at upper right, beside the outlines of a tree trunk.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place 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: 1917-4-1031
objectType: 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: 11.9 × 19.7 cm (4 11/16 × 7 3/4 in.)