untitled (Cityscape Through a Tree)
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Description:
Landscape watercolor featuring a tree that forks low to the ground. The shadow of the tree on the ground and the dark underside of the branches and leaves are heavily pigmented in a navy hue. The light regions of the tree are conveyed using heavily applied cadmium yellow pigment. Various building shapes are painted faintly in the background.
- Title: untitled (Cityscape Through a Tree)
- 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-15 W-19 inches
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Mary Wilson Ball Artwork
- Other Name: Watercolor on Paper
- Object Id: 1975.32.245
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