Drawing, Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York, September 1870, Frederic Edwin Church, September 1870

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. Object Type: drawing. Genre: landscape painting. Date: September 1870. Dimensions: 32.2 x 35.2 cm (12 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.). Medium: brush and oil, graphite, oil paint, paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Sunset across the Hudson Valley, New York, September 1870 (CH 18199685)