A Kansas Creek

1931

Birger Sandzén

Associated Names
Birger Sandzén

Artist, American, born Sweden, 1871 - 1954

C. A. Seward

Printer

Prairie Print Makers

Publisher

The artwork depicts a group of trees alongside a creek. The creek runs horizontally across the composition, with expressive strokes portraying the twisting tree forms, branches, and foliage. Bold and gestural brushstrokes create texture and movement. In the background, rocky formations with dynamic strokes appear, against a monochromatic color palette of black lines on a cream background, highlighting the contrasts between light and shadow.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.78 × 25.4 cm (7 × 10 in.)
    sheet: 25.08 × 32.39 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1379

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Greenough 2001, no. L131

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1990

  • Czestochowski, Joseph S. James Swann: In Quest of a Printmaker, with Presentation Prints of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Prairie Print Makers, and the Woodcut Society. Iowa: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 1990, appendix B, p. 122, no. 1.

2001

  • Greenough, Charles Pelham. The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzén. Lindsborg, KS: Birger Sandzén Memorial Foundation, 2001, no. L131.

Inscriptions

lower right on stone: Birger Sandzén; lower left in graphite: A Kansas Creek; lower right in graphite: Birger Sandzén

Markings

stamped lower right verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q77012578

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