Artist Monograph

Ellen Phelan, American

American, born 1943

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Gouache	15	75%
Woodcut	2	10%
Oil Painting	1	5%
Watercolor	1	5%
Other Media	1	5%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	19	95%
Painting & Sculpture	1	5%

Production by Decade

1980s

1990s

2000s

Classification Types

Drawing — 16
Illustrated Book — 3
Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	7	36.8%
Medium (30–100 cm)	10	52.6%
Large (1–3 m)	2	10.5%

Range: 7.6 cm → 228.6 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1983	3
1984	12
1991	2
1993	1
1996	1
2002	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 20 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Bard College Drawing Acc. 147.1984	1980	Gouache on paper	16 1/4 x 19" (41.3 x 48.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. June Noble Larkin
Upper Saranac, Silverlake, New York Drawing Acc. 661.1983	1981	Gouache on paper	11 1/2 x 11 1/2" (29.2 x 29.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Alfred R. Stern
Boglands, Connemara, Ireland Drawing Acc. 660.1983	1982	Gouache on paper	11 1/8 x 14" (28.1 x 35.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Margot Paul Ernst
False Narrows I from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 145.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	7 1/2 x 10 3/4" (19.2 x 27.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
False Narrows II from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 146.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	7 3/4 x 10 7/8" (19.9 x 27.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Lake-Clear Late Afternoon from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 136.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	21 x 19 1/2" (53.3 x 49.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Last Light from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 142.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	19 7/8 x 13 5/8" (50.5 x 34.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Late Afternoon Across the Lake from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 144.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	10 7/8 x 9 1/8" (27.6 x 23.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 136-146.1984	1983	Series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	21 x 19 1/2" (53.3 x 49.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Low Sun from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 143.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	11 5/8 x 11 5/8" (29.5 x 29.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Mist Rising Off Lake from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 141.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	13 3/8 x 14 7/8" (34 x 37.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Overcast Dusk-Glassy Lake from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 137.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	14 1/2 x 22 5/8" (36.8 x 57.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Rainstorm from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 139.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	13 3/8 x 18 1/2" (34 x 47 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Rainstorm-Mist Rising off the Water from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 140.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	12 1/2 x 18 3/8" (31.8 x 46.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Sunset from the series Loon Lake Drawing Acc. 138.1984	1983	One from a series of eleven drawings in gouache on paper	13 1/4 x 18 3/8" (33.6 x 46.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist in memory of her father, Thomas Edward Phelan
Mussel (plate, folio 69 verso) from A Bestiary Illustrated Book Acc. 29.1991.31	1990	Linoleum cut from an illustrated book with twenty-nine linoleum cuts (two with pochoir and two with letterpress) and seven woodcuts	composition: 3 × 2 15/16" (7.6 × 7.5 cm); page: 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Neighborhood Drawing Acc. 200.1993	(1990)	Gouache and watercolor on paper	28 5/8 x 39 5/8" (72.9 x 100.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Edward R. Broida
Plankton (plate, folio 29 verso) from A Bestiary Illustrated Book Acc. 29.1991.11	1990	Linoleum cut from an illustrated book with twenty-nine linoleum cuts (two with pochoir and two with letterpress) and seven woodcuts	composition: 6 9/16 × 8 11/16" (16.7 × 22 cm); page: 14 13/16 × 10 13/16" (37.6 × 27.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
A Clown, Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A Moonlit Cove Illustrated Book Acc. 247.1996.A-B	1996	Illustrated book with 13 photogravures (three with hand additions) and one supplementary photogravure with hand additions	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Linda Barth Goldstein
Light in Far Field Painting Acc. 162.2002	2001	Oil on linen	60" x 7' 6" (152.4 x 228.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Agnes Gund