id: 154494 accession number: 1989.14 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.14 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:36.648000 Budding Sycamore, c. 1876. John Ruskin (British, 1819–1900). Black and gray wash, gouache, and graphite; sheet: 34.8 x 44.8 cm (13 11/16 x 17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1989.14 title: Budding Sycamore title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1876 creation date earliest: 1871 creation date latest: 1881 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: black and gray wash, gouache, and graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Ruskin (British, 1819–1900) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 34.8 x 44.8 cm (13 11/16 x 17 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: thick, moderately textured cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed and inscribed, in brown ink, at lower right: 1875 / Budding Sycamore / Sketched at Greta Bridge / 1875 / J. Ruskin translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1989 opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). 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 G.R. Roxburgh date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Artemis Fine Arts, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1989 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1989- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This drawing was used as an illustration in John Ruskin's manual on drawing, Rudimentary Studies. digital description: The most influential art critic in Britain during the 19th century, John Ruskin was also an amateur artist for whom drawing was the cornerstone of artistic practice. Since his early youth, a keen perception of the world and obsessive desire to capture nature in all of its details found expression in his drawings. In this study of a leafing sycamore in early spring, Ruskin combined exquisite detail with atmospheric rendering of space, leaving the edges of the drawing unresolved. This sheet exemplifies his belief that drawn fragments, if sensitively observed, were capable of suggesting the profound mysteries of the natural world. wall description: The most influential art critic in Britain during the 19th century, Ruskin was also an amateur artist for whom drawing was the cornerstone of artistic practice. Since his early youth, a keen perception of the world and obsessive desire to capture nature in all of its details found expression in his drawings. In this study of a leafing sycamore in early spring, Ruskin combined exquisite detail with atmospheric rendering of space, leaving the edges of the drawing unresolved. This sheet exemplifies his belief that drawn fragments, if sensitively observed, were capable of suggesting the profound mysteries of the natural world. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cook, Edward Tyas and Alexander Wedderburn. The Works of John Ruskin. London: George Allen, 1906. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 21, pp. 291-92, vol. 38, p. 285, no. 1629 url: Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review: Selections 1989." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 59, no. 181 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160106 Artemis 88-89: Consolidated Audited Annual Report. Annual General Meeting (January 26, 1990). page number: Mentioned: p. 32, no. 13 url: Lemonedes, Heather, "Visible Spirit", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 07, September 2004 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-07/page/n5 Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Mentioned: pp. 126-27, 148, no. 42; Reproduced: p. 147 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 163 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.14/1989.14_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.14/1989.14_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.14/1989.14_full.tif