Landscape at Loosduinen (1905): Art, History and Details

Landscape at Loosduinen (1905) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Although Mondrian is best known for his De Stijl paintings and as a founder of modern, abstract art, he began as a landscape and figurative artist. Between 1897 and 1907, he executed about fifty landscapes each year, comprising nearly half of his entire oeuvre. In 1905, a large exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s work was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The spindly, bare trees, low horizon, and the lone peasant in Landscape at Loosduinen reveal the influence of the Dutch master upon Mondrian. The drawing’s degree of finish suggests that it was either done on commission or intended for exhibition and sale.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape at Loosduinen
• Date: 1905
• Creator attribution: Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944)
• Culture: Netherlands, early 20th Century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: black chalk (extended with water in places), watercolor, and gouache; framing line in graphite (bottom edge)
• Dimensions: Sheet: 25.8 x 35.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - Dutch
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1972.213

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Neet, Jane. “Mondrian’s ‘Chrysanthemum.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 7 (September 1987): 282–303.

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