Farm Meadow Bordered by Trees (from Sketchbook)

Thomas Hewes Hinckley

ca. 1860–ca. 1864 · Graphite on beige paper · The American Wing

Hinckley painted landscapes chiefly as a background to his portraits of wild and domesticated animals. This sketchbook (1992.373.1 recto–.27) contains thirty-four drawings in graphite and watercolor and appears to have been filled during a tour that the artist probably began near the Delaware Water Gap and extended north into the Catskill Mountains and Adirondacks of New York State. Few of the drawings in this book, however, can be linked to Hinckley’s known paintings after 1864, and the majority of them represent not merely selected motifs, but discrete compositions that often assume the character of engraved vignettes.

Artist

Thomas Hewes Hinckley

Date

ca. 1860–ca. 1864

Medium

Graphite on beige paper

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund and Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992