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Drawing, View of the Catskills from the Village of Catskill
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated ca. 1844 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is oil and graphite on cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This view of the Catskills, from which one sees the Catskill Mountain House, was a favorite of both Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. “High on the face of South Mountain, or rather between it and its northern neighbor, your eye detects a small speck, hanging like a swallow’s nest upon a wall, white and glistening in the sun. It is the Mountain House, from the broad piazza of which three or four hundred human beings are perhaps, at this moment, looking out over the landscape which lies beneath them like a map.”
—Henry A. Brown
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Painting, Broken Column, Parthenon
- brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2018-36-1
- Drawing, Exterior Cornice, Dining Room, Olana
- brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- Lent by Olana State Historic Site.
- 7.2012.4
- Drawing, East Façade, Olana
- brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on paper.
- Lent by Olana State Historic Site.
- 7.2012.3
Its dimensions are
20 × 29.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, verso center, L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed: in graphite, matte lower center: High Peak Round Top Mountain House / Catskills from Near Catskill
Cite this object as
Drawing, View of the Catskills from the Village of Catskill; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; oil and graphite on cardboard; 20 × 29.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-333
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Thomas Cole and Frederic Church and Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
