The artwork titled “Ambulance on the Go” was created by William H. Johnson in 1942. This piece belongs to the Naïve Art (Primitivism) art movement and is categorized as a genre painting.
In the artwork, there are a series of ambulances depicted in a row, traveling along a winding path through an open field. The ambulances, prominently displaying red crosses on their sides, are colored in stark yet simple hues, reflecting the naive style’s characteristic simplicity and directness. The landscape features rolling green hills, interspersed with small yellow patches and a few simplistic trees and buildings, under a sky painted in subtle shades of pink and blue. The scene exudes a sense of motion and duty, capturing a moment of wartime urgency with a distinctively uncluttered and straightforward aesthetic.
