Wooded Landscape with Lake and Mountains (from the Cropsey Album)

Paul Weber

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A German émigré working in the Düsseldorf style, Weber is perhaps best known as the teacher of William Trost Richards, also represented in this exhibition, who applied Weber’s meticulous standard of draftsmanship to his own work. In this drawing the artist manages a subtle transition of tone from the darkened trunks and roots of the foreground to the lightest tones in the untouched paper of the sky. The brilliant highlights in the middle ground and clouds were produced not buy applying pigment, but by scratching off the upper tinted layer of the sheet to reveal the white gouache undercoating of the specially prepared Bristol board.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art