Object Details
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Landscape sketch showing a view of a brilliantly vibrant sunset over the lush mountains of Jamaica. In the foreground, a round, wooded hill at right gives way to overlapping ridges in the middle distance at left. Above, a billowing prominence in a dense, low-lying cloud bank is cleaved in half by the sun's bright, golden-orange light. The orb of the sun itself is visible at center, as it colors both distant and nearby clouds in vivid hues of red, pink, orange, and yellow. In the background, the evening sky is rendered as a gradient from blue to yellow-green.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
Date
August 1865
Accession Number
1917-4-409-b
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
landscapes
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and oil paint, graphite on brown paperboard
Dimensions
25.8 × 30.6 cm (10 3/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
place depicted
Jamaica
made in
Jamaica
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Data Source
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Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-409-b