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Blasted Tree  1850

by Jasper Francis Cropsey

Like his fellow Hudson River School landscapists, Jasper Cropsey sketched in nature and then combined motifs he had observed into his compositions in his New York studio. In the late 1840s and early 1850s he traveled frequently to the Catskills, where he produced this oil sketch. Here, the gnarled trunk and branches of the weather-beaten tree offered the artist interesting...
Size: 
43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 × 14 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago