Art Institute of Chicago
A Woodland Study
Samuel PalmerLinkedCulture matchlcp-7e520b678e73
- Date
- c. 1856
- Medium
- Brush and black and brown washes, with white gouache and scraping, ruled in graphite, on ivory paperboard
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 198867
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
An English Romantic painter who was best known for his visionary landscapes, Palmer may have created this monochromatic watercolor as a preparatory study for a print. It can be related to 13 delicate etchings made by the artist in the early 1850s. The watercolor was created with graphite underdrawing, over which several brown and black washes were laid down and then heightened by opaque white paint. To emphasize the contrast between light and dark, Palmer scraped pigment off the drawing as the final phase in this considered and complex artistic process.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Private collection, England; sold through Lowell Libson to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Feb. 2006; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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