water rushing between two rocks with sliver of sky and stars visible in URQ; shades of brown, blues, greens and white

Moonlight on the Konkapot, c. 1926

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In the 1920s, Eva Auld Watson spent summers in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, working in the barn-turned-studio she shared with her printmaker husband, Ernest Watson. The Konkapot River, named after a Mohican chief, ran near the studio. This image could represent the creative charge she got from being in this rustic setting. After traveling through a daunting rock formation, the water plows into the moonlight, spreading forth like a glowing mantel fringed in lavender. After printing the white highlights, Watson added a few spatters to the sky for stars.

Details
Title
Moonlight on the Konkapot
Artist Life
1888–1948
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2017.126.11
Provenance
(Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, Calif., until about 2010, sold to Gallo); (Pia Gallo, New York, N.Y., 2010-17, sold to Kinney); Marla J. Kinney, Minneapolis
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water rushing between two rocks with sliver of sky and stars visible in URQ; shades of brown, blues, greens and white