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Clouds at Twilight
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
1872–82
- Medium
- Brush and oil on tan paperboard
- Classification
- Studies (visual works)
- Dimensions
- 28.3 × 36 cm (11 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- New York
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a view of clouds at twilight, likely viewed from the artist's estate in Hudson, New York, known as Olana. In the immediate foreground, several dark treetops are visible along the lower margin. Between two trees at center right, a distant, purple mountain range is shown in the background. Above, a large cloud bank catches the hot red and pink light of the setting sun at center right. At center, a billowing form rises into a largely open, greenish-blue sky. Another dark cloud is visible at upper center.
