TitleSeptember Song
Artist
John Pike
(1911 - 1979)
Daten.d.
MediumWatercolor with graphite under drawing
DimensionsSheet size: 22 7/8 × 31 1/16 in.
Mat size: 28 3/4 × 37 3/8 in.
SignedSigned lower left in black watercolor: "JOHN/PIKE"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, October 6, 1952
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number28-W
Label TextUp until the mid-1950s, Pike worked primarily as an illustrator for Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post, and other popular American magazines. The artist visited Woodstock, New York in the late 1930s as a guest of the illustrator and comic strip artist John H. Streibel, and settled in the art colony shortly thereafter. He opened his own school of watercolor painting on his 12 acre wooded property, where he emphasized control and value relationships. Many of Pike’s Woodstock watercolors explore the nature of light in the woods surrounding his studio. Here he focuses special attention on the fallen tree in the foreground, exaggerating and embellishing its form.
