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El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing a view of a canyon known to Church as the El Yemen Valley, encountered during his expedition to Petra. Located in the valleys of the Nahal Hatira and Nahal Yemin in the present-day Makhteshim-Ein Yahav Nature Reserve in southern Israel, the desolate canyon is made up of a kind of chalky yellow-brown stone. Here, the foreground is sketchily rendered only in graphite before transitioning to oil roughly half way up. The canyon's converging slopes meet at center to form a narrow floor. Cliffs in the background and at right consist of visible bands of layered rock strata. Above, the sky is gentle gradient from yellow to blue.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- February 21, 28, or 29, 1868
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-844
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.8 × 50.9 cm (12 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
- made in
- Israel
- place depicted
- Israel
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-844
- Usage
- CC0
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