Robert Lucy
Old Growth Stump, 1997
Oil on linen
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Patrick Duffy and Wally Goodman, Goodman Duffy Collection, 2008.
2021.08.176

Item Description:
A painting of a moss-covered tree stump with a hollow and exposed roots in front of trees. Blue sky is visible through the canopy of the forest. There is a stylized, slightly cartoonish, quality to the image.

Old Growth Stump is one of four of the same subject that Lucy painted over the years at Ecola State Park on the Oregon coast. The other example are:

Grand Stump (1994)
Great Stump (1996)
The Great Stump (1998).