La Avanida [Avenida]

Artist Leo Leander Courtney (American, 1890 - 1940)

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MediumLinocut on hand-made, beige laid paper

DimensionsImage: 6 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (15.56 × 21.59 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 1/8 inches (26 × 33.4 cm)
Framed: 14 5/16 × 16 1/4 × 5/8 inches (36.35 × 41.28 × 1.59 cm)

Credit LineGift of American Century Services, LLC

Object number2019.57.1

SignedIn graphite at LR: "Leo Courtney –"

InscribedIn graphite at LL: "La Avanida"

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

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DescriptionThis is a horizontally oriented print in black ink that depicts a small road with a few buildings on either side. At the left side of the road, in the middle ground, there sits a broad tower with three faces. The darkest face is angled toward the road; a partially shaded face is parallel with the picture plane, and a white face (barely visible behind dark tree branches along the left edge of the picture) is oriented away from the road. The tower casts a dark shadow across the road, and between its shadow and the bottom of the picture, the left half to two-thirds of the road is covered in a cone-shaped shadow. Two or three one-story buildings stand along the right side of the road. The central building appears to be stucco or adobe construction with exposed beam ends in a row at the top of the front elevation. Two black trees extend up behind that building.
Exhibition History

Exhibition History

None recorded

Provenance

With American Legacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO;

Purchased from them by American Century Services, LLC, Kansas City, MO, possibly in 1991 [1];

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 31, 2019.

NOTES

[1] Some reports provided from American Century's collection database include accession numbers that seem to reflect the accession year, but the staff was unable to confirm if they do indeed represent the accession date.

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