Object Details
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Landscape sketch of hilly terrain at sunset with a lake in the foreground at right and a house with a barn on cultivated land beside it at left. A dim, yellow sky illuminates the horizon while, above, a large cloud bank dominates the sky and is tinged with pink and deep red light by the setting sun.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
Date
probably 1850–55
Accession Number
1917-4-505-a
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
landscapes
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
20.4 × 31.6 cm (8 1/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
made in
USA
place probably depicted
Vermont or Maine, USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-505-a