Vance Kirkland

Rocky Glen

Rocky Glen

Year 1953

Artist Vance Kirkland (1904-1981, American)

Media watercolor and denatured alcohol on paper

Dimensions 18 1/4 x 29 inches

III. Hard Edge Abstractions / Abstractions from Nature. This is a hybrid painting that can be considered part of more than one of Kirkland’s five painting periods. As an example of Kirkland’s earliest resist technique of watercolor and denatured alcohol, it is part of the fourth period, Abstract Expressionism, as well as the third, Hard Edge Abstractions / Abstractions from Nature.

ON VIEW in Watercolor Room 13

Signature Signed "Kirkland 1953" lower left corner

Accession Number VK1953.06