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Houses

c. 1936

Mabel A. Hewit

(American, 1903–1984)
Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Beige(1) laid imitation Japanese paper
Measurements
Sheet: 33.7 x 43.7 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/16 in.); Image: 23.5 x 35 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.366
Copyright
© Mabel A. Hewit
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Before a woodblock can be carved, the board is usually planed, scraped, and possibly sanded to make it smooth. The surface is not always prepared properly, however, and in Houses the shallow, evenly spaced, parallel vertical ripple marks made in the wood by a machine planer transferred to the paper upon printing and are particularly evident in the sky.
A horizontally oriented color woodcut depicts clustered geometric houses in muted red, blue, and tan against a textured gray sky. Small dark windows punctuate rectangular walls beneath triangular roofs. A dark utility pole stands to the left, while a rounded green hill with white geometric sections rises on the right. Angular green and tan shapes form a patterned foreground. Visible wood grain creates a textured, horizontal effect across the entire scene.

Houses

c. 1936

Mabel A. Hewit

(American, 1903–1984)
America

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