- Artist:
- Gonske, Walt
- Title:
- Irrigation ditch
- Description:
- An impressionistic landscape depicting an irrigation ditch in the center foreground of the painting. In the middle ground, on the right, there is the suggestion of the figure of a man wearing a green shirt, a white cap and black pants. The trees and grasses are golden, which may indicate this painting takes place in the fall.
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.137
- Size:
- image: 17 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.; framed: 23 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.
- Frame:
- Wood (plant material); Gold (color)
- Media:
- Oil paint (paint)
- Signature:
- Gonske NAWA (printed, lower left)
- Condition:
- undamaged
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow from the Total Arts Gallery, Taos, NM, May 12, 1990. On the museum sticker on the frame: "Gilcrease Museum, B.90.88.b; 'Irrigation Ditch' by Walt Gonske; oil; Exhibited in: 'Tulsans Collect'; February 16 - April 15, 1990." In a letter in the artist's file: "Location of 'Irrigation Ditch' is El Prado, NM, close to Gonske's studio." On the card stapled to the frame: "Artist: - Walt Gonske; Title: 'Irrigation Ditch'; Size: - 18 X 16; Med - oil on canvas; ... #734." On the back of the canvas: "Gonske NAWA 'Irrigation Ditch' #734."
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Irrigation ditch", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.137.html
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