The Wood Gatherers
Medium
watercolor and gouache with scratch-away and touches of shell gold
Dimensions
40.5 × 56.3 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
Accession Number
2013.239
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
John William North’s watercolors of the rural landscape of Somerset unite the seemingly contradictory states of minutely rendered detail with atmospheric effects. Herbert Alexander, the artist’s biographer, described the artist’s interpretation of nature as similar to that of a poet, suggesting rather than describing: "In watercolor and oil an effect of intricate detail is found on examination to be quite illusive—multitudinous form is conjured by finding and losing it in endless hide-and-seek t...