Seated Male Nude – Whittling (recto); Seated Male Nude – Whittling (verso)

Lucille Douglass

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Pig Machine--Night, Frank Hartley Anderson, woodcut
Black pastel of landscape with trees and house in distance
The work features four primary areas of color: an area of red on the right side of the paper, a small purple triangle adjacent to an irregular white space on the lower left side of the paper, a small dash of orange paint above the red area surrounded by a partial black oval, and a blue and green irregular rectangle next to a patch of peach on the left side of the paper. Each area of color is surrounded by black lines, ranging in thickness and size. The background is painted white.
The work is dominated by a large, irregular area of black paint on the left side of the paper. Strokes of yellow and gray paint are interposed in the area of black. A complimentary shape of blue paint emerges from the lower left side of the painting and winds its way around the black area on the right side. The area of blue is adjacent to a slanted stroke of dark gray paint on the far right. In the center of the work is a square of blue and green paint outlined in black.