Tree Trunks, 1825-1840

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink, wash, and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 37.15 × 27.31 cm (14 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.607

Artists / Makers

Thomas Cole (artist) American, 1801 - 1848

Image Use

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Provenance

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

Associated Names

Cole Vincent, Florence H.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1952: Drawing by American Masters, Howard University, Washington, DC, 1952

1975: In Praise of Space, Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania; Parsons School of Design, New York, 1975-1976

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 15-16, no. 5, repro

2006: American Landscape: Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006

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. 36.