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Rocks

1839

James Goodwyn Clonney

Associated Names

James Goodwyn Clonney

Artist, American, 1812 - 1867

The image shows a group of large, weathered rocks with delicate pencil strokes to suggest texture and shadows, drawn on beige-toned paper in monochrome shades of pencil gray. Tufts of grass are interspersed among the rocks.

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of J. William Middendorf, II)
Dimensions

image: 12.38 × 21.59 cm (4 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.2665

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. William Middendorf, II, McLean, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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Exhibition History

1978

Selections from the Gift of J. Williams Middendorf, II, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978, no. 13

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. 19, no. 127.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 1839

Wikidata ID

Q64580356

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