Upland Pastures, Vermont

1933 (published 1934)

Thomas W. Nason

Associated Names
Thomas W. Nason

Artist, American, 1889 - 1971

Torch Press

Printer

The Woodcut Society

Publisher, 1932 - 1954

The image depicts a landscape with rolling hills leading to a distant horizon. The horizon is high in the composition, with a small structure visible in the center-left. The scene is created using a finely detailed, linear engraving style, with a monochromatic color palette of black and white. Shadowed fields and trees in the foreground lead the eye to the distant hills and sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow, 1968)

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.05 × 19.05 cm (3 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 16.83 × 25.4 cm (6 5/8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1331

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Comstock & Fletcher 1977, no. 151

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

1942

  • Fowler, Alfred. Catalogue Raisonné of The Woodcut Society. Kansas City, MO: The Woodcut Society, 1942, no. 5.

1977

  • Comstock, Francis Adams, and William D. Fletcher. The Work of Thomas W. Nason, N.A.. Boston: Boston Public Library, 1977, p. 83, no. 151.

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 C, p. 140, no. 5.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 148/200; lower right in graphite: TW Nason

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q77013401

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