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Eagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
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Eagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–60 · Oil and graphite on paperboard; verso: graphite

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Landscape sketch showing a view of the sun setting over Mt. Desert Island in Maine, looking west over Eagle Lake from the summit of Cadillac Mountain. The immediate foreground includes the nearby rocky and wooded slope, loosely rendered, with a barren tree at left, which descends to Eagle Lake, prominently featured at lower center. Bounded on all sides by heavily wooded hills and mountains, the lake brightly reflects the sun's light, which also casts a shadow of the nearby ridge on the lake's surface. In the middle distance at left, a round prominence--possibly Connor's Nubble--abruptly rises behind the lake. A rolling landscape interspersed with numerous reflective lakes extends from the middle distance into the background, where it forms an undulating horizon. Unobscured, the sun shines brightly at upper center, radiating beams of white light in every direction. The sky is a layered mix of sunset tones, with thin bands of pink clouds along the horizon, darker banks of puffy clouds at left and along the upper margin, and a hazy sky gradating from a warm peachy gold to a darker blue-green.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineEagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. 1850–60. Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church. CC0.

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