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Drawings
From an Office Window
- Date
- 1916
- Accession number
- 2022.13
- Maker
- Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson(Opens in new tab) (British, 1889–1946)
- Dimensions
- sheet: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.8 cm.) frame: 20 1/2 × 17 in. (52.1 × 43.2 cm.)
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Description
- This a view of London from the vantage point of an office window in the city. In this soft, grisaille pastel, the artist portrays the city and the atmospheric effect of the smog that hung over it at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased in memory of Russel Kully with funds from the Art Collectors’ Council, with additional support from the Douglas and Eunice Erb Goodan Endowment Fund, the Connie Perkins Endowment, the Estate of Kendrick Schlatter, and an anonymous donor
- Department
- European Art
- Find out more
- View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)
