Tree Study (from Sketchbook)
Medium
Graphite, ink, on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (12.4 x 20 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Frederick K. Detwiller, 1930
Accession Number
30.138.8 recto
Tags
Trees
About the Artist
Henry Ward Ranger · 1858–1916
Henry Ward Ranger was born in 1858 in Syracuse, New York, and grew up to become one of the leading American landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He received his early training in the United States before traveling extensively in Europe, where he spent significant time studying in Holland and England. The Dutch Barbizon painters — particularly the Hague School ar...