Cloudy Sunset, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: August 1865
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 a vibrant sunset in cloudy skies over Jamaica. A treetop is included in the immediate foreground at lower left, while a pointed mountaintop is loosely rendered in the middle distance at center. Lush, green terrain extends indistinctly to a hazy horizon. At center, a puffy, low-lying bank of clouds stretches across the composition and partially obscures the view of a bright patch of orange-red sunlight. The setting sun's light casts the background clouds in a luminous red glow, that fades to gray and white along the upper margin.
place: label: place depicted
content: Jamaica
label: made in
content: Jamaica
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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: 1917-4-408-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: Oil on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 21.2 × 28.7 cm (8 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.)