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Elevator
Artist
William Judson Dickerson
(United States, 1904 - 1972)
Date1959
MediumWatercolor with graphite on paper
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 22 3/8 x 30 1/8 in. (568.3 x 765.2 mm)
Object TypeDrawings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Virginia and Richard DeVore, Wichita, Kansas
Object number2012.367
On View
Not on view• The industrial aspect of Kansas agriculture provided fodder for Dickerson’s imagery, and he was especially attracted to grain elevators. He produced views of the massive storage containers on the edge of Wichita and smaller Kansas communities.
• The elevator depicted in this watercolor is an “iron-clad,” so called because of its galvanized iron or tin cladding.
• The red railcars shown here would load grain as well as cattle (from the pen via the ramp in the foreground) for delivery to far flung markets. Elevator is a study for a 1960 lithographic print Dickerson produced for the Kansas State University Friends of Art. Dickerson straightened the outlines of the boxy forms in the black-and-white lithograph and eliminated details such as the grain chute coming out of elevator. (Link to the 1960 print below.)
• The elevator depicted in this watercolor is an “iron-clad,” so called because of its galvanized iron or tin cladding.
• The red railcars shown here would load grain as well as cattle (from the pen via the ramp in the foreground) for delivery to far flung markets. Elevator is a study for a 1960 lithographic print Dickerson produced for the Kansas State University Friends of Art. Dickerson straightened the outlines of the boxy forms in the black-and-white lithograph and eliminated details such as the grain chute coming out of elevator. (Link to the 1960 print below.)
Exhibitions
William Judson Dickerson
1934
1939.1
