The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Dragon and Orchard

c. 1908

Arthur Wesley Dow

(American, 1857–1922)
America
wood block
Overall: 25.5 x 18.7 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1999.325.1
Catalogue raisonné: Acton and Goddu 39
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).
    From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
  • {{cite web|title=Dragon and Orchard|url=false|author=Arthur Wesley Dow|year=c. 1908|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.325.1