(Crossing) by Sybil Davis Emerson
(Crossing)
Sybil Davis Emerson
Title
(Crossing)
Artist
Sybil Davis Emerson
1892 - 1980 (biography)Year
1958
Technique
ink line drawing with watercolor
Image Size
15 x 20 1/8" image
Signature
India ink, lower right within image area
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique
Annotations
dated "58" after signature
Reference
Paper
textured watercolor paper
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
16465
Price
$950.00
Description
Sybil Davis Emerson did this composition while living in Berkeley, California, while teaching at the California College of Arts & Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) in nearby Oakland. By the 1950s she had lived and exhibited throughout the U.S. and in France for three decades, studying with leading Modernists at the Art Students League and with André Lhote at Académie Falguiere.
This abstracted, flat-plane drawing of a railroad crossing reads like a stained glass window, her use of delicate aquamarine and cloudy gray appearing to illuminate the shapes formed by the crossing cables.