A Road into the Woods
date: label: Date
content: 1860–1885
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 partially completed view of a dirt road leading into a dense deciduous forest, possibly on the property of the artist's estate in Hudson, New York, known as Olana. The portion of the road in the foreground is only minimally rendered with broad strokes of reddish brown paint. Dapples of sunlight illuminate the road in the middle distance at center, and also fall upon a detailed tree with moss and lichen on its trunk, at right. The tall, thick trunks of several other trees visibly recede into the distance under a thick, green canopy, while three trees at left are not rendered and left only as negative space. Graphite sketching is visible at lower left and lower center.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
label: place possibly depicted
content: Hudson, New York, 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: 1917-4-589-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 27.7 x 31.4 cm (10 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)