ID#:
1976.0062.000011
Description:
Elizabeth Colborne
1887 — 1948
"The Sisters Peaks of the Cascade Range, Whatcom County Washington," circa 1925
Tempera
14 x 11 inches
Gift of the Bellingham Public Library
A naturalistic energy runs through the work of Elizabeth Colborne, who studied in New York at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. She also spent time on Monhegan Island, Maine, with Rockwell Kent (1882—1971), who may have inspired the artist's linear style. Colborne became nationally recognized for her wood block prints of the mountains and forests of Whatcom County, which she studied while living in Bellingham. Many of her graphite drawings of trees, exquisitely detailed and photographic in clarity, depict individual specimens close—up and from unusual angles. Her tempera painting The Sisters Peaks of the Cascade Range is realistic in its fidelity to color and atmospheric conditions and abstract in its compositional structure.
1887 — 1948
"The Sisters Peaks of the Cascade Range, Whatcom County Washington," circa 1925
Tempera
14 x 11 inches
Gift of the Bellingham Public Library
A naturalistic energy runs through the work of Elizabeth Colborne, who studied in New York at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. She also spent time on Monhegan Island, Maine, with Rockwell Kent (1882—1971), who may have inspired the artist's linear style. Colborne became nationally recognized for her wood block prints of the mountains and forests of Whatcom County, which she studied while living in Bellingham. Many of her graphite drawings of trees, exquisitely detailed and photographic in clarity, depict individual specimens close—up and from unusual angles. Her tempera painting The Sisters Peaks of the Cascade Range is realistic in its fidelity to color and atmospheric conditions and abstract in its compositional structure.
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