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Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York
Frederic Edwin ChurchSeptember 1870
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A view over wooded hills in foreground, through a middle distance showing a lake beneath a strip of blue sky with golden-yellow illuminated clouds reflecting the last of the setting sun, and looking toward distant dark mountains capped by heavy dark brownish-gray clouds beyond.
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- Title: Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York
- Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
- Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
- Date Created: September 1870
- Physical Dimensions: w352 x h322 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium: Brush and oil paint, graphite on thin cream paperboard
- Provenance: Louis P. Church
- Paper Support: Thin cream paperboard
- Exhibitions: London, UK - The Tate Britain, "The American Sublime," February 20, 2002 - March 19, 2002; Traveled to: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June 17, 2002 - August 25, 2002; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 22, 2002 - November 17, 2002.New York, NY - CHNDM, "Radiant Skies: The Winter Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church," December 23, 2002-March 3, 2003 (installation in Great Hall)New York, NY - CHNDM, "Training the Hand and Eye: American Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," January 22, 1989-March 5, 1989; Travelled by S.I.T.E.S. September 1989-October 1990. (see TMS Exhibitions Module)Gallery Associates of New York State, Inc. - Resorts of the Catskills, January 1980-January 1981.Albany, NY - NY State Museum, Albany, "New York the State of the Art," October 8, 1977 - November 26, 1977.
- Dimensions: 32.2 x 35.2 cm (12 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
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