The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 21, 2024

Dragon and Orchard

Dragon and Orchard

c. 1908
(American, 1857–1922)
Overall: 25.5 x 18.7 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Dow carved these blocks, two of them on both sides, for Dragon and Orchard. Influenced by his own cyanotypes (an early photographic process that produced blue images), he printed this impression, a nocturnal version, in ten shades of blue.
  • Estate of the artist
  • Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
  • {{cite web|title=Dragon and Orchard|url=false|author=Arthur Wesley Dow|year=c. 1908|access-date=21 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.325