Farm Houses with Elm Trees in the Middlesex County

 

Cora May Boone

  1871 - 1953 (biography)

c. 1913  

watercolor 

14 x 19 5/8" image and paper 

"CORA BOONE", in pigment lower right 

1 of 1 unique 

pencil label on the paper backing of the old frame: "Farm Houses with Elm trees-in Middlesex County just outside of London, England" Artist-Cora Boone, (Great Aunt of Mrs. Frank B. Durkee, Jr.) 

 

watercolor paper supported on board 

 

 

18560 

$800.00 

Cora Boone is best known for the single-block woodcut technique she learned from Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown around 1920 and taught it to other artists and teachers in California. Boone was also an accomplished watercolorist, studying with Leonard Richmond between 1912 and 1913 at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London and with Jeka Kemp in Paris.

Cora Boone’s signature saturated watercolor technique captures a moody sky over a British landscape, a mixture of blue sky and dramatic clouds vying for foothold as the bucolic landscape stretches out beneath. When working with the somewhat temperamental medium, so different from the rigidity of her other favored medium, white-line color woodcut, she was never afraid to douse the paper with color in order to manipulate the pigment for its intended effect: to evoke a mood without becoming distracted by minute detail.