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Catalog Number |
2021.02 |
Title |
Montana Territory |
Artist |
Blackburn, Linda |
Date |
2018 |
Medium |
Watercolor and gouache on paper |
Dimensions |
H-18 W-24 inches |
Accession number |
2021.02 |
Description |
This piece is from Blackburn's most recent series spotlighting cowboys and exploring Western imagery. Depicted is a Western landscape, with a man hiding behind an outcropping of rocks in the lower visual right corner of the piece, and another man approaching on horseback from the upper visual left side of the piece. Jutting out from the bottom of the rocky outcropping appears to be a pair of legs, implying someone was in the middle of trying to hide a body. Blackburn's more recent works dealt with tropes in Western films. The brushwork is dry and scrubby, the color desaturated, and the dry, almost transparent paint makes the atmosphere of the painting seem as arid as the setting. Given the subject matter and the fast style of the brushwork, each of these studies seems more like a section of storyboarding taken straight from a Western film production team. |
Caption |
Montana Territory |
Culture |
American |
Collection |
TMA |
Cataloged by |
Scott, Leah |
Credit Line |
Gift of Kathi and Ken Appelt |
Source |
Kathi and Ken Appelt |