Perlman Teaching Museum - The Road Approaching the Village

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The Road Approaching the Village

early 20th c.
20th century
19 1/4 in. x 23 5/8 in. (48.9 cm x 60.01 cm)

Maurice Vlaminck, French, (1876–1958)

Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors

Creation Place: Europe, France

Medium and Support: watercolor and gouache on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Elizabeth Wallace

Accession Number: 2000.014

Vlaminck, along with Matisse, was labelled a "Fauve" (wild beast) for his use of strident color in 1905. By the 1920s, Vlaminck had settled into the expressionistic landscape style embodied in the Carleton picture.

This luminous watercolor came from the estate of Elizabeth Wallace, identified in institutional records as a "friend" of the college. Indeed Wallace was gifted in her friendships, including ties to author Mark Twain and to Laurence Gould, Carleton President between 1945 and 1962. Carleton awarded Professor Wallace (University of Chicago, Romance Languages) an honorary degree in 1949.

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20th Century, 21st Century, Contemporary*, French*, gouache (water-base paint)*, gouaches (paintings)*, paper (fiber product)*, watercolor (paint)*, watercolors (paintings)*

20th Century
21st Century
Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
French - Refers to the culture of the modern nation of France, or in general to cultures that have occupied the area of the modern nation in western Europe.
gouache (water-base paint) - Opaque water-based paint, usually composed of pigment in gum arabic plus a white material that increases opacity. It may be used for heightening works in aquarelle or for whole paintings. The term originally probably had a different meaning, referring to oil applied on top of tempera painting.
gouaches (paintings) - Watercolors, which are considered either drawings or paintings, using gouache, which is opaque color that is ground in water and mixed with gum and honey.
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
watercolor (paint) - A transparent aqueous based paint produced by mixing ground pigments with water and, generally, gum arabic. Aqueous based paints made with vegetable gum binders were used by Egyptian, Greek, and Roman artists for wall paintings. Japanese and Chinese painters extensively used watercolor paints on silk panels and delicate paper scrolls. In the 16th through18th century, watercolor paints were used for miniature illustrations on porcelain, ivory, cards, books and manuscripts. By the 18th and early 19th centuries, watercolors rapidly increased in popularity due to the availability of small cakes of watercolor paints in metal pans, usually applied to a paper support by using a brush.
watercolors (paintings) - Refers to two-dimensional works of art, usually on a paper support, to which pigment suspended in water is applied with a brush to create an image or design.