Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view from the artist's New York estate known as Olana, possibly looking east toward the Taconic Mountains. In the foreground, a green pasture or field descends to a dense and dark line of trees. The middle distance consists of a rolling, green, and pastoral landscape that extends into the background, where the dark silhouette of a low mountain range stretches across the horizon. A long bank of billowing cumulus clouds rises behind the range, and are tinged in reddish orange light. Sporadic wispy clouds hang in an otherwise dark blue sky above.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- 1870–80
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on off-white paperboard
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 32.8 cm (10 3/8 × 12 15/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
