Fountain and Trees

Lucille Douglass

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A black and white photograph of a surface with multiple layers of paint that are cracked, curled and peeling. Light creates shades of gray and black in the layers of paint. The lighter color paint has cracks and a rough texture, while the dark colored paint is peeling in abstract shapes and has a vertical element to its texture.
Hand-carved wooden frame in the so-called "whirlwind" pattern. According to Virginia Couse Leavitt, the artist's granddaughter, his earliest frame design "incorporates a scroll (whirlwind) at the center of each side, from which a barbed feather motif extends to the corners."
This image is created with black ink on paper. It represents a two story house with a porch to the left, built with brick on the bottom story and board on the top. The windows are in various states of disorder and on the top story some of the wood siding has fallen away, revealing the lathe and plaster of the interior walls. There are two windows in the top story and two windows in the bottom story. In front of the bottom right window there is a small outbuilding, also made of brick. There is a figure to the left of the outbuilding and another seated to the right next to a chair. Behind her stands a tree, and a second house stands behind the tree, more obscured than the first. A tree also rises from behind the upper left of the house at the left of the image.
This etching is created with black ink on paper. It represents a row of houses along a street. There is a tree immediately in front of the house in the foreground. Leaning on that tree is a collapsing fence, also in front of the house. Beyond the fence is a sidewalk and then a street. Three people are walking in the street. Near the figures is a prominently placed power pole. Houses perched on hills extend down the street, receding into the background. Behind the houses is a large hill or slag pile.