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
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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:			

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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	watercolor with gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Garden William Fraser (British, 1856–1921)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 19 x 26.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	thick, moderately textured cream wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and dated, in brown watercolor, at lower right: 1885 / W.F. Garden
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. 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
	<i>Visions of Landscape: East and West</i>. 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
	<i>Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century</i>. 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
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Christopher Wood, London)
	date: ?-before 1978
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	(Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1978
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1978-
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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 <em>Early Spring in the Woods</em>. 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>English Nineteenth Century Paintings, Watercolors, Drawing</em>s. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1978.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 84
	url:		

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1978." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (1979): 3-47.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22
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	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 130-1, 146, no. 44; Reproduced: p. 131
	url:		

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