The Singing Trees
1928
Medium
wood engraving in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 10.16 × 7.62 cm (4 × 3 in.) block: 12.54 × 9.05 cm (4 15/16 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 15.24 × 11.27 cm (6 × 4 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner)
Accession Number
2015.19.1018
About the Artist
Timothy Cole
Timothy Cole (1852–1931) was one of the most celebrated wood engravers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, renowned for his extraordinary ability to translate the tonal richness of Old Master paintings into the exacting medium of engraved wood. Born in London, England, Cole emigrated with his family to the United States in 1858. He began his career as a wood engraver in Chicago, but t...