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Follow the heavy outlines around each rock, then the short, quick marks of water and moss that run between them like a ribbon.
Rocks, water and plants fill this crayon drawing of 1917, the only landscape in this room. Schiele was then serving in the army as a clerk: in 1916 at a prison camp, where he made little art, and in 1917 in Vienna. The sheet stayed in his estate and then with his younger sister, Gertrude Schiele Peschka, before it came to the National Gallery in 2012.
crayon on wove paper · sheet: 29.9 × 45.8 cm · National Gallery of Art · Expressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Mountain Stream
- Artist
- Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890 - 1918
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- crayon on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 29.9 × 45.8 cm (11 3/4 × 18 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.