Jerusalem from Olivet
Artist
James McBey
(Scottish, 1883 - 1959)
Date1921
MediumDrypoint
DimensionsPlate: 6 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (17.15 × 36.83 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number53-51/58
On View
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Gallery LabelJames McBey served with the British army in Palestine during the Great War (1914–18), fighting against the Turks. This matter-of-fact view of Jerusalem may be compared to a much more dramatic view of the city in a painting by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) in the Nelson-Atkins American paintings collection. The sketchy rendering of McBey’s buildings, leaving much of the paper bare, vividly conveys the heat of the day.
Frances M. Logan (1855-1946), Kansas City, MO, by 1946;
Bequeathed by Frances M. Logan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
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