Study for "The Mountain Ford"

1846

Thomas Cole

Artist, American, 1801 - 1848

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and white chalk on gray wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.02 × 19.69 cm (5 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 17.46 × 24.92 cm (6 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.772

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent to the artist's granddaughter, Florence H. Cole Vincent, Catskill, New York; (Macbeth Galleries, New York, 1949); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1975

  • In Praise of Space, Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1975

  • American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1977, p. 19

1977

  • Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979

  • Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1980

  • Hudson River Drawing, Falmouth Public Library, Massachusetts, 1980-1981

1981

  • Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

1983

  • American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

  • Images of the Land: 200 Years of Landscape Painting in the Northeastern United States, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1983

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 6, no. 37.

Wikidata ID

Q64633192

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