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Drawing, Clouds East of Long Hill, Hudson, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 1863 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite and oxidized white gouache. 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.

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: 4; in graphite, center left: purplish / warm / greenish; in graphite, center: purple grey / yel / greenish / smoky / orange; in graphite, center right: blue grey / reddish; in graphite, lower center: EAST [arrow pointing up]; in graphite, lower right: Aug /63; in graphite, verso upper left: reddish / bluish yellow; in graphte, verso upper center: 4 / broken broken / 4; in graphite, verso upper right: 2 Dazzling gold / 3 - rich dusky warm / 4 Delicious bloomy / greenish grey - yet warm / 5 - more purple; in graphite, verso center left: at dusk / streaked; in graphite, verso center: 3 2 3 / gold / purple orange / greenish / cool purple dark; in graphite, verso center right: 5 / 5 5 / purplish / glow / shadow

Cite this object as

Drawing, Clouds East of Long Hill, Hudson, New York; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite and oxidized white gouache; Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1018

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