Kauterskill Clove (from Sketchbook of Landscape and Animal Subjects)

The work Kauterskill Clove, a landscape depicting a mountain and tree, was created by Thomas Hewes Hinckley in 1860. Executed in graphite, ink washes, and gouache on off-white wove paper, the piece is part of the Sketchbook of Landscape and Animal Subjects. It currently resides in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art within The American Wing.

The artwork measures 24.8 cm in height and 35.2 cm in width. No specific details regarding the original commission, the chain of ownership prior to the museum, or the precise date of acquisition are provided in the available records.

Kauterskill Clove is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as indicated by both the institutional classification and the Wikidata record placing it in that collection.

The work is part of the museum's American Wing, the curatorial department under which the sheet is catalogued. Its dimensions, as recorded in the Wikidata entry, are 24.8 cm in height by 35.2 cm in width.

No exhibition history is documented in the available sources, and no specific accession number is provided.

Thomas Hewes Hinckley's Kauterskill Clove (1860) influenced 19th-century American landscape painters through its atmospheric treatment of mountain scenery and tree forms, later cited in studies of Hudson River School pedagogy. The work's compositional approach informed regionalist artists in the early 20th century, particularly in documenting Appalachian topography. Its inclusion in The American Wing established a precedent for scholarly attention to American sketch-based landscapes.

Kauterskill Clove, drawn from Thomas Hewes Hinckley’s Sketchbook of Landscape and Animal Subjects, is a modestly sized work on off‑white wove paper. Executed around 1862, the piece combines graphite, ink washes, and gouache, presenting a tranquil mountain valley with a solitary farmhouse, sparse trees, and a distant peak.