Henry Lyman Sayen

Valley Falls II
c. 1915

Vibrant and abstract painting depicting a landscape with bold, expressive brushstrokes in a variety of colors, including blues, greens, yellows, and reds. The composition features stylized trees, hills, and possibly a river, all rendered in a non-realistic, fragmented manner.

Vibrant and abstract painting depicting a landscape with bold, expressive brushstrokes in a variety of colors, including blues, greens, yellows, and reds. The composition features stylized trees, hills, and possibly a river, all rendered in a non-realistic, fragmented manner.

Not on view

Date
c. 1915

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 25 1/4 × 30 3/16in. (64.1 × 76.7 cm)

Accession number
71.218

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution by exchange

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/861

Exhibitions

At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism

May 7, 2022–Feb 26, 2023

Henry Lyman Sayen
1 work in the collection

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