Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Desolation

Artist Philip Burnham Hicken (American, 1910 - 1985)

Datec. 1940

MediumSilkscreen on paper

DimensionsFrame: 20 1/8 x 22 1/4 x 5/8 in. (51.1 x 56.5 x 1.6 cm)
Sight: 10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Betty Jacobson

Object number2022.25.3

Collections

MODERN

DescriptionA landscape view; in the foreground is a dilapidated shack in gray and white hues and a field of dark brown; the lower half of the background includes a low horizon with the undulating curves of mountains, a house and a tree with pink leaves; the upper half of the background includes a blue and golden sky; inscribed “desolation” in graphite (lower left) and signed “hicken” in graphite (lower right).