A Gnarled Evergreen, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August 1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical sketch showing a view of a gnarled evergreen tree on Grand Manan Island in Canada. Dominating the composition at center, the tree's knobby, curving trunk hosts numerous barren and twisting branches. Spanish moss (or some other kind of hanging detritus) appears to dangle in tufts from these branches, highlighted in white gouache, some of which has oxidized into a black color. The top of the tree extends out of view at upper center.
place: label: made in
content: Canada
label: place depicted
content: Canada
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-15-b
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, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on light brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 39.4 × 27.9 cm (15 1/2 × 11 in.)