Defending Their Home
Object number2023.36.3
Artist
Nat Youngblood
(1916 - 2009)
MediumWatercolor paint; Paper; Graphite
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Goldstein
DescriptionWatercolor painting study on rectangular off-white paper. Painting depicts an attack scene with a man and young adult in the foreground leaning against a large tree; the man is firing a rifle and the youth holds an axe; the man is seated and appears to have an injured proper left leg. The midground has a fallen tree with stump and a dead white horse. The background has a homestead in the viewer's right corner in front of an orange sky; there may be silhouetted figures running for the home. The ground of the foreground and midground are various tones of pink, orange, yellow, blue, and brown. White margins surround the painted area and there are graphite lines drawn in the margins. Reverse is undecorated.DimensionsHeight x Width: 7.938 x 9.938 in. (20.2 x 25.2 cm)SignedArtist signature in pencil in the viewer's bottom left corner of the painting "Nat Youngblood".
InscriptionsIn the bottom margin is handwritten text in pencil "Bicentennial sketch - "defending their home" ".
In the viewer's bottom right corner of the margin is handwritten text in pencil "H1".
Historical NotesPart of a collection of watercolors from Nat Youngblood's Pioneer series.
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