untitled (Boy Climbing the Dunes)
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Description:
Watercolor on paper illustrating a figure walking toward the viewer through the dune grass on a beach. The open ocean visible behind him. The roundness of the dunes is conveyed using blue and purple shadows and scattered grasses. Ball has used the dry brush technique creating a jagged brush stroke that shows the texture of the paper.
- Title: untitled (Boy Climbing the Dunes)
- Creator: Mary Wilson Ball, 1892-1984
- Date: Undated
- Signature: Mary W. Ball
- Signature Location: lower left corner
- Culture: American
- School: Charleston Renaissance Movement
- Dimensions: H-11.5 W-15 inches
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Mary Wilson Ball Artwork
- Other Name: Watercolor on Paper
- Object Id: 1975.32.225
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