Niagara Falls by Moonlight
Cleveland Museum of Art

Niagara Falls by Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900) · probably 1856

graphite and white gouache
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

In this drawing, Church manipulates negative space—the space around and between his drawn subjects—to suggest the forms of water and smoke.

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