Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011427A Blasted Tree (recto)
About the Artwork
This detailed drawing of a blasted tree was a study for Cropsey’s painting The Cove--A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains (1851).
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in graphite: J. F. C. / 1851
Exhibition history
American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jasper F. Cropsey (American, 1823–1900)
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite, heightened with white
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 x 15.6 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1979.91.a
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