Sunset, Bar Harbor, Maine
date: label: Date
content: September 1856
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 the sunset over the coastline of Maine, just north of Bar Harbor on Mt. Desert Island. In the foreground, a rocky shoreline extends obliquely into the middle distance and features a pair of houses, visible at lower center. The small spit of land that extends out of frame at lower right is likely the beginning of the Bar Island land bridge. Across a calm cove in the middle distance, two overlapping points of hilly and heavily wooded land form a rolling horizon made rough by treetops. Above, layered bands of puffy and wispy clouds are brightly and diversely illuminated by the light of the setting sun.
place: label: made in
content: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Bar Harbor, Maine, 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: 1917-4-1277-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 light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.3 × 45.6 cm (10 3/8 × 17 15/16 in.)