Long Country Road

Artist Frederic James (American, 1915 - 1985)

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MediumWatercolor with opaque watercolor over graphite underdrawing on white wove paper

DimensionsImage: 14 5/8 × 19 3/4 inches (37.15 × 50.17 cm)
Framed: 22 7/8 × 26 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (58.1 × 67.95 × 3.81 cm)

Credit LineGift of American Century Services, LLC

Object number2019.57.5

On View

Not on view

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American Art

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DescriptionThis horizontally oriented color watercolor depicts a dirt road extending into the distance through a rural, slightly hilly landscape. The road occupies the right half of the image along the bottom edge of the image and narrows as it goes back, eventually curving off to the right in the background. A short outcropping of whitish rock stands next to the road on its left side, behind long grasses. Two white buildings are visible in the center of the middle-to-far distance. Clouds fill a narrow blue sky above a high horizon line.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Provenance

Possibly James E. Stowers Jr. (1924-2014) [1];

Transferred to American Century Services, LLC, Kansas City, MO;

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

NOTES

[1] Founder of American Century Services, LLC. Kelle Cochran, contact at American Century, had very little documentation on previous owners but noted the following: "I have heard of none of our art that was in previous collections but since some was our Founder's, Mr Stowers' art, we have no way to verify that."

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