Study of a Fallen Tree (from sketchbook)
This sketchbook, donated to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Wing, dates from the decade of Johnson’s maturity as a landscape painter. It augments the Museum’s collection of American landscape sketchbooks by such well-known Hudson River School artists as Asher B. Durand, Albert Bierstadt, Jervis McEntee, John Casilear, and the Philadelphia landscape painter William Trost Richards. In this book, started while Johnson kept a studio at 626 Broadway during the 1860s, the artist recorded several Hudson River settings.
Artwork Details
- Title: Study of a Fallen Tree (from sketchbook)
- Artist: David Johnson (American, New York 1827–1908 Walden, New York)
- Culture: American
- Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions: 4 5/16 x 6 15/16 in. (11 x 17.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Martha J. Fleischman and Barbara G. Fleischman, 1999
- Object Number: 1999.368.3r recto
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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