Striped Mountain
Artist
Cady Wells
(American, 1904 - 1954)
Date1937
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 22 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (57.2 × 39.4 cm)
Support: 22 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (57.2 × 39.4 cm)
Mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
Support: 22 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (57.2 × 39.4 cm)
Mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of the Cady Wells Estate, 1982
Object number1982.16.18
DescriptionAbstract mountain scape. Rounded, orange/tan mountain in center of image with heavy black brush strokes throughout. White area at lower right section with blue and black markings. Gray/blue sky with black lines for clouds.eMuseum Notes
Striped Mountain may be a representation of the barranca, a formation of tuff or volcanic ash near Cady Wells's home in Jacona in the Pojoaque Valley. Wells mused that barranca had the significance for him that the Cerro Pedernal had for his friend and colleague Georgia O'Keeffe.His depictions of the barranca differ over the course of his career, and he used a thick contour to describe the topography. By devoting little space to the representation of the sky, Wells gave the barranca a monumentality, as it looms over the viewer.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- landscapes (representations)
- Abstract
- Modernist
