Dead and Broken Tree

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1851

Dead and Broken Tree, 1851

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Botanical and landscape sketch showing a view of a dead tree that has broken mid-way up its trunk, visible at right, while its collapsed upper boughs rest on the ground at center and left. A small sapling grows beside the dead trunk at right, while other, loosely-rendered vegetation covers the forest floor. Graphite and oxidizing white gouache on light brown wove paper

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