Cedar, between 1825 and 1826

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on cream wove paper

  • Sheet (irregular): 8 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (21.6 × 26.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.91.A

Inscribed, lower left center: very blue [illegible] in the foliage | Cedar

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Parry, Ellwood C. III. THE ART OF THOMAS COLE AMBITION AND IMAGINATION, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988, p.31, fig.7.

Thomas Cole, Cedar, between 1825 and 1826, graphite pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.91.A.