Quarry

William Thon

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Rather than working a watercolor rapidly, the mid-twentieth-century landscape watercolorist William Thon tended to devote numerous sessions of work to each sheet, always painting indoors, where he could best control the drying rates of washes and ink drawings. As a result, Thon’s watercolors have denser, more built-up surfaces than the modernist watercolors of the teens and twenties. Thon particularly liked the interplay of the successive layers of wash and ink and the fortuitous blurring that often occurred.

Caption

William Thon (American, 1906–2000). Quarry, ca. 1952. Watercolor and perhaps India ink on paper, 27 1/2 × 41 in. (69.9 × 104.1 cm) frame: 36 3/4 × 50 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (93.3 × 128.9 × 11.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 53.144. © Portland Museum of Art, Maine. All rights reserved.. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Quarry

Date

ca. 1952

Medium

Watercolor and perhaps India ink on paper

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

27 1/2 × 41 in. (69.9 × 104.1 cm) frame: 36 3/4 × 50 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (93.3 × 128.9 × 11.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed twice: lower right: "Thon" in matte black watercolor and lower right: "Thon" in what appears to be India ink

Credit Line

Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

53.144

Rights

© Portland Museum of Art, Maine. All rights reserved.

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