Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Figure and landscape sketch showing one of the artist's traveling companions sitting on a log by a campfire during an excursion to the Mt. Katahdin region of Maine. Wearing a brimmed cap, boots, and a jacket, he sits exactly opposite the viewer with his legs spread and his hand held up and palm facing outward. Beside him at right, an axe is buried in the top of a tree stump, with its handle facing toward our human subject. In front of him, several criss-crossing logs are engulfed in flame, rendered in white gouache. Closer to the viewer, in the immediate foreground, a bucket with a handle is backlit by the fire and casts a shadow across the ground. In the background, the faintly-rendered trunks of other trees frame the scene at left and right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- 1877–1878
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite and oxidizing white gouache on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.4 × 44.1 cm (9 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
