Sorrow on the Frontier
Object number2023.36.4
Artist
Nat Youngblood
(1916 - 2009)
MediumWatercolor paint; Paper; Ink; Graphite
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Goldstein
DescriptionWatercolor painting study on rectangular off-white paper. Painting depicts a view through the front door of a rustic home. The foreground is the porch with a young girl standing in the doorway and an axe and wooden barrel in the viewer's right foreground below the window; the foreground appears dark and gray with blue, purple, green, and brown details. The interior of the home depicts a sick, dying, or dead person in bed with two attendants; the interior scene is brighter and executed in orange, pink, white, and brown media. White margins surround the painted area and there are graphite lines drawn in the margins. DimensionsHeight x Width: 9.063 x 10.313 in. (23 x 26.2 cm)SignedArtist signature in black ink in the viewer's bottom right corner of the painting "Nat Youngblood".
InscriptionsIn the bottom margin is handwritten text in pencil "Idea. (not used) for Bicentennial series / concerning trials of sickness and death".
In the viewer's bottom right corner of the margin is handwritten text in pencil "H2".
Historical NotesPart of a collection of watercolors from Nat Youngblood's Pioneer series.
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