Tree Trunk (Bleak Tree)
Artist
Cady Wells
(American, 1904 - 1954)
Date1938
Mediumwatercolor on paperboard
DimensionsImage: 22 1/4 × 15 in. (56.5 × 38.1 cm)
Support: 22 1/4 × 15 in. (56.5 × 38.1 cm)
Mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
Support: 22 1/4 × 15 in. (56.5 × 38.1 cm)
Mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Cady Wells Estate, 1982
Object number1982.16.25
DescriptionSlightly abstracted view of a tree bare of leaves; browns and blacks with highlights in red.eMuseum Notes
The denuded tree and tonal palette of Tree Trunk (Bleak Tree) differs markedly from the paintings Cady Wells produced only five years earlier. Wells may have sought a mysticism in his work akin to the artists Albert Pinkham Ryder and and Ralph Albert Blakelock, both of whom were lauded by later American artists for the spirituality of their work.
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