Wooded Landscape
1905
pastel
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
About the artist
1905
pastel
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Wooded Landscape is a 1905 pastel by Lucien Ott, depicting Forest, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a tangle of trees in soft pinks, greens, and blues, drawn with thick pastel strokes on blue paper. Ott made this when he was only twenty. He died the same year, so the work feels like a quiet snapshot of a life cut short. The blue paper peeks through the strokes, giving the scene a hazy, dreamlike glow. To see more works on blue paper, look up the technique: pastel.
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