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Composition is a stylized landscape that features three antelopes or deer grazing in a forest near a pond. The one on the left is running, the one in the middle is kneeling down and looks back to the first one, while the third one stands with his head gazing upwards toward clouds. Typical of linocuts, the print is characterized by strong contrasts of black and white, the latter representing paper untouched by ink.
In the early 1960s, Charles H. Babcock (1899–1967) gave the house and its contents, presumably including this print, to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection—Reynolda House, Inc.—on December 18, 1964, with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.
ProvenanceFrom 1964
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, acquired in 1964. [1]
Notes:
[1] In the early 1960s Charles H. Babcock (1899-1967) gave the house and its contents to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection (Reynolda House, Inc.) on December 18, 1964 with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.
Exhibition History
DepartmentHistoric House
Composition
Datecirca 1930
MediumLinocut
DimensionsFrame: 13 5/8 × 15 1/4 in. (34.6 × 38.7 cm)
Image: 6 × 8 in. (15.2 × 20.3 cm)
Other: 6 7/8 × 9 in. (17.5 × 22.9 cm)
SignedHobson Pittman
Credit LineReynolda Estate
CopyrightCopyright Unknown
Object number1966.2.117
DescriptionHobson Pittman began to work with linocut and woodcut prints about 1930, just prior to assuming a teaching position as Director of Art at the Friends Central Country Day School near Philadelphia in 1931. Linocuts were common in classrooms as an easy and inexpensive printmaking process. Composition is a stylized landscape that features three antelopes or deer grazing in a forest near a pond. The one on the left is running, the one in the middle is kneeling down and looks back to the first one, while the third one stands with his head gazing upwards toward clouds. Typical of linocuts, the print is characterized by strong contrasts of black and white, the latter representing paper untouched by ink.
In the early 1960s, Charles H. Babcock (1899–1967) gave the house and its contents, presumably including this print, to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection—Reynolda House, Inc.—on December 18, 1964, with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.
ProvenanceFrom 1964
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, acquired in 1964. [1]
Notes:
[1] In the early 1960s Charles H. Babcock (1899-1967) gave the house and its contents to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. The house was then incorporated as a museum and collection (Reynolda House, Inc.) on December 18, 1964 with the signing of the charter at its first board meeting. The museum first opened to the public in September 1965.
Exhibition History
Status
Not on viewcirca 1930
