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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketches on paper of a gnarled tree trunk, hands, and a white cedar sprig with handwritten notes.

Shaking Hands and a Gnarled Tree Trunk, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of tree trunks, a board fence, and faint animal legs on cream paper.

Tree Trunks beside a Board Fence

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of a leafy group of trees with slender trunks rising from rocky ground, handwritten date at right.

A Group of Trees, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of wooded riverbanks and tree canopies reflected in water, with handwritten notes naming the Río Magdalena.

Wooded Banks along the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a bare dead tree trunk with angular branches extending to the right on cream paper.

Dead Tree Trunk, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketches of several trees with varied foliage and trunks on blue-grey paper, with handwritten annotations.

Sketches of Trees, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of tree tops and foliage on tan paper, with the handwritten word Niagara at upper right.

Tree Tops, Niagara Falls, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch on paper of a boy in a hat, a cow's rear, cow legs with hooves, and a small tree.

Sketches of Theodore Cole, Cow Legs, and a Tree, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of a palm tree trunk and fronds on tan paper, with handwritten color notes and a museum stamp.

Palm Tree, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch page with two standing bulls, a bull head study, and an oak tree with branches, dated September 1840.

Sketches of Bulls and an Oak Tree, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a cotton tree's buttress roots and trunk, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Cotton Tree, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketches of plants and foliage with a poplar branch on the right, annotated with handwritten color notes.

Plant Sketches with Poplar Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Painting of slender trumpet trees with broad green leaves and a white blossom over reddish earth and undergrowth.

Trumpet Trees, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted landscape of two pine trees on a rocky slope above a reddish path, with rolling hills and a blue sky.

Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Painted study of tall tree trunks, ferns, and a bromeliad in a dim tropical forest with olive-brown tones.

Trees and Undergrowth, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860