The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 14, 2026

Intaglio and sugar lift on a vertical strip of textured paper creates an abstract landscape of mint green and pale yellow fields. A broad purple stroke sweeps from the upper left, intersected by a winding red line. Cool gray-blue streaks rise from the bottom, while an organic red blotch and a lone green leaf float on the right. Handwritten pencil inscriptions mark the bottom margin of this ethereal composition.

Bough and Cradle Falls (B.A.T)

2017

Kumi Korf

(American, b. 1937)
America
intaglio, sugar lift, aquatint, stencils, and inked threads on Akatosashi paper
Image: 80.2 x 24.8 cm (31 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Sheet: 93 x 24.8 cm (36 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2023.208.2
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The artist chose a thin Japanese Akatosashi paper for this print specifically because of its sheen and translucency.

Description

Bringing together influences from both Japanese traditional arts (for example, the scroll format of this print) and European modernism (for example, the abstracted forms), Kumi Korf’s primary inspiration is rooted in the natural world. In Bough and the Cradle Falls, an amorphic figure in saturated autumnal red gently tumbles down from the soft blue field, evoking the verses of the nursery rhyme, which is both somber and resonant.
  • Kumi Korf (the artist) [1937–], commissioned by The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
    2023
    The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art
    December 4, 2023–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.208.2