Interior of Woods with Small Stream (from Cropsey Album)
This charming compositional study was probably intended as an illustration for a publication—never realized—of the work of American poets, including Longfellow, Whittier, and Poe. Despite the intimacy and literary redolence of this scene, it lacks the detailed foliage that would characterize Richards’s later works of this kind, such as “The Spring” (1993.527). Indeed, its character betrays the Germanic influence of the immigrant painter Paul Weber, with whom Richards studied a few years earlier in his native Philadelphia.
Artwork Details
- Title: Interior of Woods with Small Stream (from Cropsey Album)
- Artist: William Trost Richards (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1833–1905 Newport, Rhode Island)
- Date: 1854
- Culture: American
- Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions: 5 x 4 3/4 in. (12.7 x 12.1 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.9.17
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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