Desert Waterway

 

Dorr Bothwell

  1902 - 2000 (biography)

1960  

color serigraph / screenprint 

10 1/4 x 17 1/4" image 

pencil, lower right; pencil, upper right image 

15 of 15  

titled, dated and editioned in pencil 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

ABMM228 

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Bothwell captures the universal starkness of a desert canal, cement or stone walls running straight and narrow against a bumpy, sparsely vegetated landscape, hot sky above reflected in the shallow water below. Bothewell lived at various times in Southern California, not far from the major arteries of agricultural waterways that spread through desert and city alike. She also traveled throughout Egypt and India, inspired by the landscapes she was exposed to there. This image is perhaps an amalgamation of these places and experiences.