Backlit Clouds with Sunbeams, Catskill, New York
date: label: Date
content: September 1844 and June 1845
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 tall, billowing clouds over Catskill, New York, backlit by the sun, which emanates its shining beams of light over the cloud and across the sky above. The puffy, rounded forms of the clouds stretch across the composition with a towering prominence at center. Below, a rolling, mountainous horizon is faintly rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unclear landscape sketch that may depict layers of sediment and rock on a cliff or hillside, rain falling from bands of clouds overhead, or shallow water rushing over a stepped cascade. Indistinct composition characterized by layers of undulating horizontal lines with vertical striations coming down from each line.
place: label: made in
content: Catskill, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: Catskill, 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: 1917-4-996-c
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 18.8 cm (4 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)