Woodstock Road, Woodstock, New York

George Bellows

National Gallery of Art

Drawn with black crayon on tan-colored paper, a winding road weaves past fields, trees, and a few houses in this horizontal landscape. The road is created with dark, wavy lines that run almost parallel to each other. The road nearly spans the lower edge of the composition, and it curves into the distance. Vegetation to either side is indicated with bouncing squiggles or flicks of the crayon. One house edges into the picture from the right and another is at the foot of rolling hills farther back in the scene. The sky is filled with puffy clouds. The landscape is enclosed with a border made of freehand-drawn lines. Beneath the bottom line and near the right corner, an inscription reads “Geo. Bellows ESB.”