Tree and Rocks
Medium
Graphite and wax crayon on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
9 7/8 x 13 3/8 in. (25.1 x 34 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Arthur M. Herschensohn, 1967
Accession Number
67.28.4
Tags
Trees
About the Artist
Walter Shirlaw · 1838–1909
Walter Shirlaw (1838–1909) was a Scottish-born American painter and illustrator whose career bridged the genteel tradition of academic figure painting and the emerging ambitions of American art in the Gilded Age. Born in Paisley, Scotland, Shirlaw emigrated to the United States as a child and received his early artistic training in America before traveling to Munich to study at the Royal Academy —...