Tangled exposed roots hanging down from soil with fine textured background.

Herbert W. Gleason

Sand Foliage, from the Deep Cut, Walden

1908

Not on view

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Classification
Photographs

Medium
Palladium print

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 8 × 6 in. (20.3 × 15.2 cm) Image: 6 1/16 × 4 1/2 in. (15.4 × 11.4 cm)

Accession number
98.78.8

Credit line
Gift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/12009

Part of a series:
Walden, Life in the Woods
9 works

Two large tree trunks rise beside a small leaf-covered stream in a quiet, leaf-strewn forest.
A large pile of stones sits in a quiet forest clearing beside a lake.
Snow-covered trees and bushes surround a quiet, open clearing blanketed in fresh snow.
Three dark felt balls arranged like a face on a circular gray background mounted on paper.
A narrow dirt path winds along a wooded lake shore under tall trees.
Calm lake shoreline with pine trees in the foreground and a dense forest across the water.
A bird's nest holding nine eggs tucked among leaves and pine needles at a tree base.
Tangled roots or seaweed hanging downward against a pale, textured background.
Tall pine trees stand on a shoreline with their reflections mirrored in a calm pond.

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