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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.
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Document identity
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149397
label
Trees and Undergrowth
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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149397
contentType
drawing
title
Trees and Undergrowth
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.
date
1885
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79930591
creators
1521
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 19 x 26.8 cm (7 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.)
cul
England, 19th century
accession
1978.52
Source extras
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watercolor with gouache
tombstone
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
supportMaterials
description
thick, moderately textured cream wove paper
collection
DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
signed and dated, in brown watercolor, at lower right: 1885 / W.F. Garden
didYouKnow
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.
citations
citation
<em>English Nineteenth Century Paintings, Watercolors, Drawing</em>s. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1978.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 84
citation
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
citation
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
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The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund
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2026-05-29 07:41:30.153000
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149397
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Drawings
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DR - British
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watercolor with gouache
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male
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