Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Insects and pests can destroy woodblock prints by eating through the paper or leaving droppings that stain the paper. A common cause of holes in Japanese woodblock prints is the deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum). These beetles were commonly found in wood used to build furniture in the Edo period. Woodblock prints that were stored on ...
The "Provincetown Print", a white-line woodcut print, was attributed to this group. Rather than creating separate woodblocks for each color, one block was made and painted. Small groves between the elements of the design created the white line. [3] Because the artists often used soft colors, they sometimes have the appearance of a watercolor ...
Janet Ann Doub Erickson (June 29, 1924 – September 3, 2021) was an American graphic artist and writer who popularized linoleum-block and woodblock printing in the post-World War II period. She was a co-founder of the Blockhouse of Boston, an innovative art and design cooperative in Boston, Massachusetts .
1996 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition W.P.A. Color Prints: Images from the Federal Art Project. The News Release noted that the selection of works have rarely or never been exhibited previously. The works show various advanced printmaking practices of the time and have impacted the history of American printmaking.
Herschel C. Logan was an American artist and founding member of the Prairie Print Makers.He is known primarily today for his woodcuts of serene, nostalgic scenes of Midwest small towns and farms—mostly Kansas subjects—rendered in precise, clean lines. [1]
Lilian May Miller (July 20, 1895 – January 11, 1943) was an American painter, woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, Japan. In the world of art she marked her place with imagery, while she attended presentations in traditional kimonos, and signed her paintings with a monogram.
In North Carolina’s other America the Beautiful Challenge project, the Wildlife Resources Commission, the U.S. Department of Defense and other wildlife agencies across the Southeast will restore ...
Edna Boies Hopkins, 1894. Edna Boies Hopkins (October 13, 1872 – March 24, 1937) was an American artist who made woodblock prints, based upon Japanese ukiyo-e art and Arthur Wesley Dow's formula of three main elements: notan, a balance of light and dark, line and color.