Sketchbook, Tonal Sketches of Landscape, Coastal and Marine Subjects in Different Weather Conditions
ca. 1890
William Trost Richards
American, 1833-1905
American Art
In the evening Richards filled sketchbooks with pencil drawings of landscapes, coasts, and seas under all effects of light and weather. These monochromatic yet light-filled studies, each image framed with a border, were rendered in subtle tonal modulations and intended as exercises in composition. This page depicts a memory of the ruins of Tintagel on the Cornish coast. Although small in size, these little drawings possess a luminous sense of space and represent as purely subjective and poetic a response to light, space, and the sea as is to be found in Richards’s oeuvre.
- Maker/Artist
- Richards, William Trost
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 5 x 7 7/16 in. (12.7 x 18.9 cm)
- Inscribed
- See description
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 75.15.12
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edith Ballinger Price
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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