Sugar Maple, Adirondacks
Medium
Black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
16 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (42.9 x 27.6 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899
Accession Number
99.38.44
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Sugar Maple, Adirondacks** (1879) by Andrew Bunner captures the majestic form of a sugar maple tree in New York's wild Adirondack Mountains. Created during a time when American artists increasingly turned to the nation's untamed landscapes for inspiration, this work reflects the late 19th-century fascination with the Adirondacks as a wilderness retreat. Bunner's precise rendering highlights the tree's rugged bark, branching structure, and seasonal character, inviting viewers to appreciate the quiet grandeur of American nature. Executed in black ink with subtle graphite traces on off-white w...
About the Artist
Andrew Fisher Bunner · 1841–1897
Andrew Fisher Bunner (1841–1897) was an American painter and draughtsman whose luminous watercolors of Venice and the Long Island shore earned him a distinguished reputation among his contemporaries. Born on December 27, 1841, in New York, he studied at the art school founded by Thomas Seir Cummings and took an antique drawing class at the National Academy of Design from 1862 to 1863. By 1865 he w...