Railroad on the Dalles of the St. Louis

1882

Alfred R. Waud

Associated Names
Alfred R. Waud

Artist, American, 1828 - 1891

The image shows a landscape with an elevated viewpoint overlooking a rocky and wooded terrain. The horizon line is near the top, with distant hills and forests. The drawing style uses fine pencil strokes for texture and detail, especially in the trees. The color palette is grayscale due to the pencil medium. In the foreground, there is a sloping path or road lined with trees, leading to a river flowing among rocks. The landscape ascends into hills covered in forest in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite heightened with white on light green wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19.8 × 26.9 cm (7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1979.20.124

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Hatch, John Davis. 100 American Drawings: Loan Exhibition from the Collection of John Davis Hatch. London: Heim Gallery, 1976, no. 74.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite, slightly cropped: on the Dalles of the St Louis; lower right in graphite: ARW; upper right in graphite, cropped: The [...] Railway- 5

Wikidata ID

Q64534419

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