Clouds above the Hudson Valley, New York

Clouds above the Hudson Valley, New York by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Medium

landscapes

Classification

landscapes

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Louis P. Church

Accession Number

1917-4-446-a

About this artwork

Landscape sketch showing a view of a lush and rolling landscape in the Hudson River Valley beneath an immense and billowing bank of reddening clouds at sunset, likely viewed from or near the artist's property in Hudson, New York. In the foreground, groups of trees line a grassy and rolling field that stretches across the composition from left to right. In the middle distance, a heavily wooded hill and slightly sloping hill descends from left to right, rendered in a dark shade of brownish purple....

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