At Rest on the Expressway
At Rest on the Expressway
Nancy Elkholm Burkert
1966
Materials
Watercolor on paper
Size
14 1/8 x 18 3/8 inches
Racine Art Museum, Purchase Award from Watercolor Wisconsin 1967
About the artwork.
Nancy Ekholm Burkert creates lush yet precise drawings in ink and graphite as well as watercolor paintings. Burkert is an award-winning book illustrator with her first project being Roald Dahl’s James and The Giant Peach (1961) and her most celebrated being Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972). Notably, her stand-alone works such as At Rest on the Expressway often offer mysterious narratives that somehow match the tone of the fairy tales she illustrated.