Landscape
Artist
Cady Wells
(American, 1904 - 1954)
Date1933
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 11 7/8 × 20 1/4 in. (30.2 × 51.4 cm)
Support: 15 1/4 × 22 1/2 in. (38.7 × 57.2 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Support: 15 1/4 × 22 1/2 in. (38.7 × 57.2 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Cady Wells Estate, 1982
Object number1982.16.29
DescriptionAbstract mountain scape. Gentle rolling hills in brown lines, rust color range in center mid-ground. Green rolling lines. Black fleck marks representing pinon trees. Tan & gray wispy clouds, gray hash marks at L of image representing rain.eMuseum Notes
Chinese and Japanese ink brush painting had a significant influence on Cady Wells, and he often balanced that interest with the instruction in modernist abstraction he received from contemporaries, such as his mentor Andrew Dasburg. East Asian ink wash landscapes employ a limited use of line to construct forms, and Wells received similar advice from Dasburg. In this depiction of a rain shower over the northern New Mexico, Wells reduced forms to basic contours and used essential colors to create the scene.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- landscapes (representations)
- Modernist
- Abstract
