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Stag at Echo Rock

Object Details

Gallery Label
Stag at Echo Rock exemplifies the untrained but inventive style characteristic of much folk art. Untutored in the mechanics of perspective, this artist has produced a gripping image in which the background seems to tilt toward us, skewing our sense of depth. Though flattened, the image is rich in visual patterning and attention to detail, and is clearly made by someone intimately familiar with these rural surroundings.Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Artist
Unidentified
Date
late 19th century
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 x 29 in. (91.4 x 73.7 cm.)
Type
Painting
Folk Art

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