Woodstock Road, Woodstock, New York

1924

George Bellows

Artist, American, 1882 - 1925

Drawn with black crayon on tan-colored paper, a winding road weaves past fields, trees, and a few houses in this horizontal landscape. The road is created with dark, wavy lines that run almost parallel to each other. The road nearly spans the lower edge of the composition, and it curves into the distance. Vegetation to either side is indicated with bouncing squiggles or flicks of the crayon. One house edges into the picture from the right and another is at the foot of rolling hills farther back in the scene. The sky is filled with puffy clouds. The landscape is enclosed with a border made of freehand-drawn lines. Beneath the bottom line and near the right corner, an inscription reads “Geo. Bellows ESB.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black crayon on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.5 x 22.5 cm (6 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.5 x 31.4 cm (9 1/4 x 12 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.1.81


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1985

  • Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

2003

  • Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 2003-2004.

Bibliography

2003

  • Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock. Exh. cat. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 2003: 92.

Inscriptions

lower right below image in graphite: Geo. Bellows ESB.; lower center in crayon: all lights as high as possible / get color out of shadows; lower right in graphite: Woodsto

Wikidata ID

Q64571212


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