Trees, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August–September 1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a group of trees in the woods of Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground at left, two birch trees and one beech are grouped together with a dead spruce tree. The trunk of another tall tree is included at right. Open space extends into the middle distance at center, where another birch tree is visible. Other trees and dense foliage are loosely rendered around it.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loosely rendered landscape sketch of a coastal mountain or cliff on Grand Manan Island in Canada. At center, the pyramidal, ridged form of the mountain dominates the composition with other rugged cliffs extend into the distance at right. In the middle distance at lower center, a diminutive sailboat is dwarfed by the mountain as it sails past the craggy natural feature.
place: label: made in
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, Canada
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-29
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 30.1 × 39.4 cm (11 7/8 × 15 1/2 in.)