country of origin: United States of America / depicts: sky

instance of: painting (556) | watercolor painting (6) | study (5) | sketch (5) | artwork copy (1)

commissioned by: William Thompson Walters (1)

owned by: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (7) | Carmen Cervera (6) | Birmingham Museum of Art (6) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (6) | Phoenix Art Museum (2) | Berry-Hill Galleries (2) | Harold E. Simon (2) | Albert Bierstadt (1) | Arizona State University Art Museum (1) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (1) | Childe Hassam (1) | Dallas Museum of Art (1) | anonymous (1) | Birmingham Public Library (1) | Doyle New York (1) | Kennedy Galleries (1) | Terra Foundation for American Art (1) | American Art Association (1)

movement: Hudson River School (10) | realism (3) | Realism (3) | Orientalism (2) | Tonalism (2) | American Impressionism (2) | luminism (2) | Tonalist (1)

genre: landscape art (449) | marine art (84) | architectural view (22) | genre art (15) | animal painting (15) | floral painting (8) | capriccio (3) | Orientalism (2) | portrait (2) | cityscape (2) | allegory (2) | satire (1) | self-portrait (1) | history painting (1) | group portrait (1) | full-length portrait (1)

based on: The Ray of Light (1)

artist: Jasper Francis Cropsey (62) | Asher Brown Durand (53) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (53) | Robert S. Duncanson (43) | Alfred Thompson Bricher (33) | Martin Johnson Heade (32) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (31) | Thomas Hill (30) | Thomas Doughty (24) | William Trost Richards (19) | William Stanley Haseltine (15) | George Loring Brown (15) | William Hart (12) | Samuel Colman (11) | James McDougal Hart (10) | Louis Rémy Mignot (10) | David Johnson (10) | Homer Dodge Martin (9)

part of the series: Naked Dave (1)

material used: oil paint (473) | canvas (438) | paper (18) | panel (16) | board (12) | watercolor paint (12) | gouache paint (11) | graphite (9) | wove paper (6) | canvas (3) | pencil (2) | ink (2) | cardboard (2) | masonite (2) | paperboard (2) | charcoal (1) | enamel paint (1) | beaverboard (1)

collection: private collection (75) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (39) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (32) | Brooklyn Museum (29) | High Museum of Art (19) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (15) | National Gallery of Art (11) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (9) | Museum of Fine Arts (8) | Birmingham Museum of Art (8) | White House (7) | Oakland Museum of California (7) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (7) | Saint Louis Art Museum (7) | Cincinnati Art Museum (7) | Walters Art Museum (6) | Honolulu Museum of Art (5) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (5)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (39) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (32) | Brooklyn Museum (28) | High Museum of Art (19) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (14) | National Gallery of Art (11) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (9) | Museum of Fine Arts (8) | Birmingham Museum of Art (8) | White House (7) | Oakland Museum of California (7) | Saint Louis Art Museum (7) | Cincinnati Art Museum (7) | Walters Art Museum (6) | storage (6) | Honolulu Museum of Art (5) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (5) | Dayton Art Institute (5)

exhibition history: London (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (1) | National Academy of Design (1) | Phoenix Art Museum (1) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1) | musée des impressionnismes Giverny (1) | Terra Museum of American Art (1)

main subject: Lake George (2) | Yucatán (1) | environment (1) | gorge (1)

donated by: J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1) | Violet Ormond (1) | Stuart P. Feld (1)

location of final assembly: New York City (1) | California (1) | Rome (1) | Arizona (1) | New York (1) | Provincetown (1) | Capri (1)

published in: American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (1)

fabrication method: watercolor (1)