Roots upon a Rock, Turner Mountain, Maine
date: label: Date
content: September 1877
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape showing the base of a tree and its roots growing around a boulder on Turner Mountain in Maine, near Mt. Katahdin. The base of the tree is shown in the foreground at right as its writhing, creeping roots curl around a shaded boulder like fingers clutching a rock. Another nearby tree is shown at left, while the trunks of several others are loosely rendered throughout the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished landscape sketch showing the contour of a large, round boulder and the base of a tree behind it.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, 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: 1917-4-1079
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10 × 17 cm (3 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)