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Clouds at Sunset, Jamaica

Cooper Hewitt

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    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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    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47ded3232-fc6f-4975-a217-3641a80acab6

    Record ID

    chndm_1917-4-409-b

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