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Drawing, Summer Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 1866 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on tan 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

11.8 × 21.9 cm (4 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower left, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: dark / silver; in graphite, upper center: rich edge; in graphite, upper right; silver July 66; in graphite, center left: Yel orange / rosy delicate glow / cool purp; in graphite, center: 5 / Yel / 3 3 3 / 2 2 / Yel 5 / 4 / purple dark; in graphite, center right: Yel / open sky / 6 / open sky / warm; in graphite, lower left: Water sullen steel color; in graphite, lower center: 6 - smoky with a slight / tinge of green; in graphite, lower right: 2 - Dazzling gold / 3 - Rich brilliant orange / 4 - more luminous & yel than 3 / 5 - inclining to purple

Cite this object as

Drawing, Summer Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on tan wove paper; 11.8 × 21.9 cm (4 5/8 × 8 5/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1098-a

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