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Drawing, Thunderstorm in the Alps
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June - August, 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is oil and graphite on tan paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Water droplets behave much in the same way as Newton’s prism, splitting white light from the sun into its component colors to form the rainbow. It is easy to imagine that this spectacular natural phenomenon, captured in this oil study by Frederic Church, inspired scientists as much as it did artists.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Poster, Hewlett-Packard Calculators / For Space Sciences
- lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Various Donors.
- 1981-29-491
- Drawing, The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy, probably 1868–69
- brush and oil on paper laminate.
- Gift of Louis P. Church .
- 1917-4-1326
- Poster, Aeron Chair
- digital print and screenprint on paper.
- Gift of Herman Miller.
- 2014-19-1
Our curators have highlighted 8 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Book, Chromatics, or, An Essay on the Analogy and Harmony of Colours
- hand-colored etching, brush and watercolor on paper.
- Gift of J. Townsend Russell, Jr.,Smithsonian Libraries, ND1488 .F453c 1817.
- 92.2016.11
- Drawing, Hudson Valley, New York with Sun Setting Behind the Catskill Mountains
- brush and oil paint on cardboard.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-323-b
- Drawing, Morning Landscape
- brush and oil on cardboard.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-793
Its dimensions are
29.4 × 44.5 cm (11 9/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, verso center, L.457d
Cite this object as
Drawing, Thunderstorm in the Alps; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; oil and graphite on tan paperboard; 29.4 × 44.5 cm (11 9/16 × 17 1/2 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-509
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
