Near Stockholm
1876 to 1900
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View on museum website →Medium
pen and blue ink with blue wash
Dimensions
overall: 15.2 x 23.4 cm (6 x 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.1915
Art Historical Context
Discover the delicate charm of *Near Stockholm*, a captivating drawing by Sir Muirhead (1876–1953), created sometime between 1876 and1900. This intimate landscape, measuring just 15.2 x 23.4 cm, captures the serene vistas outside Sweden's capital, rendered in pen and blue ink heightened with blue wash. Bone a renowned Scottish draughtsman and etcher, was celebrated for his precise, atmospheric depictions of architecture and nature, bridging the Victorian era's meticulous detail with emerging modernist sensibilities. Bone's technique shines here: the fine pen lines define crisp forms—perhaps r...
About the Artist
Sir Muirhead Bone
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), born David Muirhead Bone in Partick, Glasgow, to a journalist father and descended from a family of printers, showed early artistic promise. Apprenticed at fourteen first as a porcelain painter and then as an architect's draughtsman for four years, he honed his draughtsmanship while attending evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art under teachers Archibald Kay a...