Arroyo Landscape

Victor Higgins, Arroyo Landscape, ca. 1929-1933, watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb, 1993.48.5
Victor Higgins, Arroyo Landscape, ca. 1929-1933, watercolor on paper, sheet: 1822 in. (45.755.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arvin Gottlieb, 1993.48.5
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Artwork Details

Title
Arroyo Landscape
Date
ca. 1929-1933
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 1822 in. (45.755.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Arvin Gottlieb
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape
Object Number
1993.48.5

Artwork Description

Higgins found inspiration in the dramatic landscape around Taos, New Mexico, where he lived after 1914. In Arroyo Landscape, he emphasized the patterns and textures of the land and abstract versions of the distinctive vegetation of the area. Higgins conveyed the dry stream bed and the arid desert atmosphere by applying the watercolor with a relatively dry brush, allowing the texture and whiteness of the paper to heighten the sense of sun-parched land.

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009

Works by this artist (4 items)

Charles White, The Children, 1950, ink and graphite on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Julie Seitzman and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2009.13
The Children
Date1950
ink and graphite on paper
Not on view
Charles White, Love Letter, 1971, color lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of June Wayne, 1991.179.14, © 1971, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles
Love Letter
Date1971
color lithograph on paper
Not on view
Charles White, Love Letter, 1971, color lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of June Wayne, 1991.179.15, © 1971, Heritage Gallery, Los Angeles
Love Letter
Date1971
color lithograph on paper
Not on view
Charles White, Hasty B, 1970, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1979.155.1
Hasty B
Date1970
lithograph on paper
Not on view

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Barry Dalgleish, Interior with Trunk, 1984, acrylic and oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.84.2
Interior with Trunk
Date1984
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Not on view
Stanley Edwards, Infant in Altar IV, 1965, oil and acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, 1980.137.24
Infant in Altar IV
Date1965
oil and acrylic on canvas
Not on view