Broken Tree upon a Boulder
date: label: Date
content: 1870–85
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing the burn trunk of a tree broken over a large, granite boulder. Shown at center, the fracture in the tree occurs at the darkest, most charred point the tree, whose two broken halves are angled downward at left and right. Rough, broken branches extend outward from the trunk throughout. A large, round boulder beneath the tree supports its two decays halves.
place: label: made in
content: USA
label: place depicted
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-1153
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 × 21.3 cm (4 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)