Clouds above the Hudson Valley, New York
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....