# Clouds at Twilight

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22397)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e73c5227114897acaf33fb8f2eba847e.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.