Landschap met bomen c. 1909s

Alexander Shilling made this sketch, Landschap met bomen, at no date, it's all about marks, mostly pencil on paper. On the left, we have a forest rendered as a series of vertical lines, almost like a screen, a veil through which we glimpse the trees. Over on the right, the marks are more descriptive, evoking a landscape with trees in the foreground and hills in the distance. What strikes me is the simplicity and directness of the marks. The texture is rough and immediate. You can almost feel the artist's hand moving across the page, capturing the essence of the scene with a few quick strokes. Look at the way the trees are rendered on the right, the trunks as simple lines, the foliage as clumps of scribbled marks. This reminds me a little of Guston. Although, it could be any landscape artist who's trying to find a way to capture the sensation of being in nature, to translate that experience into marks on a page.