Object Details
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Landscape and seascape sketch showing a view of crashing waves and violent surf on the coast of Mount Desert Island in Maine. In the foreground and middle distance, foaming surf and breaking waves crash against a dark rocky point that projects into the image at left. At center right, one particularly large wave begins to crest. Above, the overcast sky is rendered in a warm shade of gray, made warm by the brick colored ground beneath the oil paint.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
Date
probably July–September 1850
Accession Number
1917-4-329
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
landscapes
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Oil and graphite on cardboard
Dimensions
20.1 × 30.7 cm (7 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
made in
Maine, USA
place depicted
Maine, USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-329