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Jasper F. Cropsey

A Blasted Tree (recto)

1851
pen and brown ink, brown wash and graphite, heightened with white

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This detailed drawing of a blasted tree was a study for Cropsey’s painting The Cove--A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains (1851).

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