Mist in Rugged Mountains
date: label: Date
content: June 1874
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 mist and clouds around an extremely sharp and craggy mountain range. While this scene was recorded in Hudson, New York (likely on the grounds of the artist's estate, Olana), these dramatic mountains almost certainly are not the Catskills. At lower right, a small but still sharp mountain is shown in the middle distance beside what appears to be a body of water. A low-lying bank of billowing mist rises behind this prominence and frames a view of a tall and craggy mountain range in the background. The range has numerous sharp peaks that rise and disappear into a dark bank of clouds at upper left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a mountain range at sunset. The ridge is outlined along the lower margin and is relatively flat without any dramatic, defining features. Layers of hazy clouds are variously lit by the setting sun in the sky above. At center left, a kind of vertical column formation of clouds is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, 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: 1917-4-1108
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 tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 × 21.9 cm (4 3/4 × 8 5/8 in.)