Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Seascape sketch showing a view of a fiery sunset over the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Dark, purple-brown water extends from the foreground into the background, where it forms a flat horizon. Just above the horizon at center, the fiery pinkish-red light of the setting sun illuminates the sky, as well as a long, dark cloud bank the stretches across the horizon. Highlights of crimson red are visible in this cloud at center. Above, the otherwise open sky is rendered in a gradient from green to orange.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- June–July 1859
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 20.3 × 30 cm (8 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Type
- seascapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
