About the Artwork
From the Cattskill Mountain, Before Sunrise
ca. 1827
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
American
Unknown
Pen and black ink and some graphite pencil on off-white wove paper
Sheet: 6 9/16 × 4 inches (16.7 × 10.2 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
39.558.31
This work is in the public domain.
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Inscribed, in pencil, top to bottom (partial transcription): Grey clouds with soft horizontal reddish lights | Gray but partaking [some] little color of the sky thin horizontal streaks | These areas a great massy mist which was of a pure grey | Mist thinly veiling in parts landscape dark grey | "Twenty minutes before sunrise after this the reddish light became the most beautiful crimson" | All grey mists catch a little warmth | River much cooler before sunrise | Masses of woods appear dark at this distance - about 2 1/2 miles
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1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thomas Cole, From the Cattskill Mountain, Before Sunrise, ca. 1827, pen and black ink and some graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.558.31.
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