id: 149397 accession number: 1978.52 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.52 updated: 2023-01-11 04:45:29.686000 Trees and Undergrowth, 1885. Garden William Fraser (British, 1856–1921). Watercolor with gouache; sheet: 19 x 26.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund 1978.52 title: Trees and Undergrowth title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1885 creation date earliest: 1885 creation date latest: 1885 current location: creditline: The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: watercolor with gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Garden William Fraser (British, 1856–1921) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 19 x 26.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: thick, moderately textured cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated, in brown watercolor, at lower right: 1885 / W.F. Garden translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1978 opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century opening date: 2004-08-15T00:00:00 Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004). title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00 British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Christopher Wood, London) date: ?-before 1978 footnotes: citations: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 1978 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1978- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Although William Fraser Garden received critical recognition for his watercolors early in his career, he lived and worked in relative obscurity and was plagued by financial troubles for most of his life. digital description: William Fraser Garden’s work was based on the rendering of minute detail with painstaking brushwork and handling of color. Here, he describes an insignificant corner of the Bedford landscape: a tangled thicket in which dry grasses and saplings commingle. Bare branches stretch across a bright blue sky, creating a pattern as intricate as a spider’s web. This may have been the drawing that Garden exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1885 with the title Early Spring in the Woods. A pale green haze in the grass, the azure sky, and scattered wildflowers suggest the promise of spring. wall description: Garden’s work was based on the rendering of minute detail with painstaking brushwork and handling of color. Here, he describes an insignificant corner of the Bedford landscape: a tangled thicket in which dry grasses and saplings commingle. Bare branches stretch across a bright blue sky, creating a pattern as intricate as a spider’s web. This may have been the drawing that Garden exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1885 with the title Early Spring in the Woods. A pale green haze in the grass, the azure sky, and scattered wildflowers suggest the promise of spring. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS English Nineteenth Century Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1978. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 84 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1978." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (1979): 3-47. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22 url: Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Mentioned: pp. 130-1, 146, no. 44; Reproduced: p. 131 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.52/1978.52_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.52/1978.52_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.52/1978.52_full.tif