# Otter Cliffs, in 19th-century United States

Arnold William Brunner drew this in 1879–80, aged 22. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Enclosed scene of mountains, top. Bottom, larger scene looking out to sea, lower right two figures sitting.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1879–80
- Medium: Graphite and white heightening on gray paper
- Dimensions: 15.1 × 22.5 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1948-47-249
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Arnold William Brunner](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/arnold-william-brunner), American, 1857–1925

Arnold W. Brunner was a New York architect who trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sketched widely in Europe as a young man.

3 works in the collection.

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