Boat and Trees

1914

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest

Associated Names
Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest

Artist, Dutch, 1876 - 1923

The image shows interlocking triangles and curved shapes. Green triangular forms rise upward against a black background. There is a red boat-like shape and blue zigzag shapes at the bottom, with orange arcs hinting at a sun. Rounded shapes on the side resemble leafy tree canopies.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black, hand colored with watercolor, on Japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.6 x 15.1 cm (3 3/4 x 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 18.4 x 24 cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.270

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Huussen/Henkels 1983, undesc

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Neuerberg [b. 1883], Cologne (Lugt 1344a). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 31, 2001; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

  • Huussen, A. H. Jr., and Herbert Henkels. Jacoba van Heemskerck 1876 - 1923: Eine expressionistische Künstlerin . The Hague, 1983: undesc.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: JacobavanHeemskerck no. 1; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 371/1

Wikidata ID

Q76556500

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