Outside Were Trees - Birds and Sky

Ludwig Bemelmans

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Ludwig Bemelmans (American, born Austria, 1898–1962). Outside Were Trees - Birds and Sky, 1939. Watercolor and ink on paper, sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 1/4 in. (49.1 x 36.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 41.53. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Outside Were Trees - Birds and Sky

Date

1939

Medium

Watercolor and ink on paper

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 1/4 in. (49.1 x 36.2 cm)

Signatures

Signed in ink, lower right: "Bemelmans"

Inscriptions

Inscribed in ink, bottom center: "outside were trees -- birds and sky -- / and ten [days] went quickly by --"

Credit Line

Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

41.53

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