James Castle

(Tree Forms in Landscape)
c. 1910–1977

A monochromatic drawing depicting a landscape with two prominent trees in the center, flanked by a row of smaller, arch-shaped trees or bushes. The artwork has a rough, sketch-like quality with heavy shading and a visible fold or crease running vertically down the middle. The paper appears aged with slightly tattered edges.

Not on view

Date
c. 1910–1977

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Soot and spit on found paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 × 6 1/2in. (10.2 × 16.5 cm) Image: 4 × 6 1/2in. (10.2 × 16.5 cm)

Accession number
2017.91

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee, the Director’s Discretionary Funds, and partial gift of an anonymous donor

API
artworks/50673

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

James Castle
44 works in the collection

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James Castle

(Tree Forms in Landscape) c. 1910–1977

Exhibitions

James Castle 44 works in the collection

(Tree Forms in Landscape)
c. 1910–1977

James Castle
44 works in the collection