Grand Evening Sky Above Hill Tops
date: label: Date
content: July 1866
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 dramatic, possibly stormy clouds rising above wooded hilltops in the evening sky. In the foreground at left, a rounded hilltop is shown with several tall and narrow trees. Above, billowing clouds are simultaneously brightly lit and enshrouded in darkness. A possible bolt of lightning is visible in the cloud at upper center left. Other distant, puffy clouds are shown at center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of an expansive sunset over a rolling mountain ridge. Colored clouds extend from the viewer's position to the horizon and beyond. The outline of an undulating ridge forms the horizon.
place: label: made in
content: near Hudson, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: near 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: 1917-4-160
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
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 21.6 cm (4 11/16 × 8 1/2 in.)