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A collection of forty-nine (49) George Cress (American/Tennessee, 1921-2008) landscape sketches, studies, and other miscellaneous works on paper in graphite, charcoal, ink and ink wash, and colored pencil, c. 1940/50s-2004. Includes depictions of the Chimney Tops in the Great Smoky Mountains and Walden’s Ridge, Tennessee; Cloudland Canyon State Park and Pigeon Mountain, Georgia; Jasper, Alberta (inscribed “British Columbia”); Ogunquit and Rockport, Maine; and near Grahamsville, New York, among others. Also includes a mountain landscape inscribed “The Palisades / B’ham Museum/ Oil,” possibly related to the 1958 oil on Masonite painting in the collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Some signed and inscribed, all with museum accession numbers en verso. Housed in a paper sleeve. Sheet dimensions range from 17 3/4 in. x 14 in. to 5 1/2 in. x 4 in. Sleeve: 22 in. x 17 3/4 in.
PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Hunter Museum of American Art.
CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Some sheets with toning and handling wear primarily to edges.
