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Spring at Cardross

1900

Muirhead Bone

(British, 1876–1953)
Culture
England, 20th century
Medium
drypoint
Credit Line
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1941.632
Catalogue raisonné
Dodgson 70
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

A Glasgow artist with architectural training, Bone began to make prints in 1898. One of his earliest drypoints, Spring at Cardross already demonstrates Bone’s brilliant draftsmanship and atmospheric use of plate-tone. In abbreviated strokes, the artist described a panoramic view of the landscape of Dumbartonshire, Scotland.
A horizontally oriented print in black ink with scratchy, dense lines depicts a long hill rising toward the right, topped with spindly trees. Tiny silhouetted figures gather along the base above a foreground of long, horizontal strokes. In the upper left, heavy diagonal hatching creates a brooding sky, contrasting with lighter, scattered marks on the right. A signature in the bottom right corner completes this atmospheric, textured landscape.

Spring at Cardross

1900

Muirhead Bone

(British, 1876–1953)
England, 20th century

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