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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.”

George Bellows

Woodstock Road, Woodstock, New York, 1924

Not on View

Medium

black crayon on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1983.1.81

Artists / Makers

George Bellows (artist) American, 1882 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Exhibition History

1985: Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery’s Collection, 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.