Trail Riders

1929

Levon West

Associated Names
Levon West

Artist, American, 1900 - 1968

The image is an etching of a vast open landscape with people on horseback traveling across a wide, barren expanse. The point of view is slightly elevated, with the horizon high in the image. The figures are spread across the lower part of the composition, moving from close to us towards the distant part of the landscape. The etching technique uses fine, linear brushstrokes to create variations in texture, especially in the land and mountains. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of sepia and brown. The background is undefined, with faint outlines of mountains or hills blending into the sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.81 × 31.27 cm (9 3/8 × 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.9.265

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Torrington 1930, no. 116, xi/xii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1930

  • Torrington, Otto M. A Catalogue of the Etchings of Levon West. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930, no. 116, xi/xii.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Levon West; lower left in graphite: 32/100; lower center in graphite: Trail Riders; lower right in graphite: Levon West imp- 1929

Wikidata ID

Q65080573

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