Dark charcoal smudges create a cloudy, storm-like abstract scene with lighter center.

Ellen Phelan

Garden Drawing: Autumn, Wind

1984

Not on view

30 works in the collection
3 exhibitions

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/34057

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 18 × 15 3/4 in. (45.7 × 40 cm)

Accession number
2008.124.7

Credit line
Gift of Altria Group, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© Ellen Phelan / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/34057

Part of a series:
Garden Scrolls and Garden Drawings
7 works

Dark smoky charcoal clouds blend into a lighter mist above a calm, shadowed surface.

Large abstract black and gray ink wash suggesting billowing clouds over a faint horizon.

Soft charcoal drawing of a dark, cloud-like mass hovering above a flat, misty surface.

Dark abstract ink wash suggesting stormy clouds over a misty landscape.

Soft black-and-white watercolor shows a misty riverside with trees and reflections.

Tall vertical charcoal wash with smoky dark-to-light gradient and worn paper edges.

Large vertical sheet with dark charcoal wash and textured marks, showing worn edges.

See also

Ellen Phelan
Autumn Wind
1990