Pitch Pine, between 1801 and 1848

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 8 5/8 × 5 1/4 inches (21.9 × 13.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.110

Inscribed, upper right: Pitch Pine Inscribed, lower left: The colour is rather a cold green | the leaves are in little round bunches | many of the bunches turn up at the end | and [illegible] the stems show from underneath

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

Thomas Cole, Pitch Pine, between 1801 and 1848, graphite pencil on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.110.