Minneapolis Institute of Art

Moonlight on the Konkapot

Eva Auld Watson

Date

c. 1926

Medium

Color linocut

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

In the 1920s, Eva Auld Watson spent summers in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, working in the barn-turned-studio she shared with her printmaker husband, Ernest Watson. The Konkapot River, named after a Mohican chief, ran near the studio. This image could represent the creative charge she got from being in this rustic setting. After traveling through a daunting rock formation, the water plows into the moonlight, spreading forth like a glowing mantel fringed in lavender. After printing the white highlights, Watson added a few spatters to the sky for stars. United States, Americas

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