Tree Trunks
c. 1860s
Artist, American, 1827 - 1908
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 25.72 × 26.67 cm (10 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
sheet: 26.99 × 36.51 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.587
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
John F. Kensett, American Federation of the Arts, New York (traveling exhibition), 1968-1969
1979
Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979
1983
American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983
1988
Meditations on Nature: The Drawings of David Johnson, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, New York, 1988, p. 48, fig. 24, repro
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. 41, no. 290.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite by unknown hand: A; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: T. L. 6558. A-59; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 18422
Wikidata ID
Q64540813