BROKEN DOWN HOUSE

Artist JULIAN JOSEPH (1882-1964)

DateNo date

CountryUSA

MediumPastel

Dimensions50.2 x 64.8 cm (19 3/4 x 25 1/2") (Image)
81.3 x 101.9 cm (32 x 40 1/8") (Mat)

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of George R. Nicholson.

Object number820038317

DescriptionThe image is a landscape dominated by a dilapidated structure that spans the entire width of the support. The siding of the building consists of vertical planking, a doorway just right of center has a door hanging crooked off its hinges, two windows, one on the left and one on the right, are both covered with turquoise colored shutters, and two brick chimneys appear on the backside of the roof on the left side. In front of the structure the foreground is comprised of unkempt grasses with a scraggly shrub on the left; a large tree raises up over the center of the back of the building.

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