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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Sunset, Bar Harbor, Maine

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on light green wove paper. 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.

Its dimensions are

26.3 × 45.6 cm (10 3/8 × 17 15/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso center right, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: Blue gradually blending / into the dusky cirrus / very / softened / edges / same; in graphite, upper center: smoky blue / smoky shadows & gold; in graphite, center: orange gold / Delicate purple shadow gold glaze / pink light / splendid gold cirri / in streaks; in graphite, lower right: gold still / grey blue - wind / calm / calm with swell breaking in with blue lines; in graphite, verso right margin [David Huntington's hand]: Bar Harbor - D.C.H. 11/63

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sunset, Bar Harbor, Maine; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on light green wove paper; 26.3 × 45.6 cm (10 3/8 × 17 15/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1277-b

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