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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Clouds over a Wooded Landscape, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 1867 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on gray wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, verso center: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: Aug /67; upper right: 5 6 / 5 6; center: 6 6 5 / 7 / 3 3 2 / 4; lower left: 5 delicate steel blue / 6 - Exquisite rose blush / 7 - Dark clouds cool purple / Lower landscape green; lower right: 2 - gold streak dazzling / near sun - recedes orange - / 3 - purple blue / 4 - darker purple

Cite this object as

Drawing, Clouds over a Wooded Landscape, New York; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on gray wove paper; 11.9 × 19.4 cm (4 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1013

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