Breathing Hope

1996

Lou Stovall

Artist, American, 1937 - 2023

The Workshop, Inc.

Publisher

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Verdant green fields roll in undulating waves back alongside a road in this horizontal landscape painting. The fields take up the left and center of the composition and are painted with thick, curling strokes of emerald, pea, and celery green, and corn yellow to suggest grasses and plants. The pale green road runs up along the right edge of the painting, and is layered with strokes and daubs in butter yellow, spring green, and faint blue. The fields and road meet the horizon line about halfway up the canvas, where an aquamarine-blue sky swirling with white and periwinkle-blue clouds fills the top half of the painting.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Washington, DC; acquired 2007 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: CP 4/8; lower center in graphite: Breathing Hope; lower right in graphite: Lou Stovall 4/12/96

Markings

embossed lower left: [Lou Stovall]

Wikidata ID

Q76347468

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