The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 14, 2026

A vertically oriented print on textured paper features a top section where a thick purple line creates a jagged shape before arcing against a pale green field with silver swirls. Below, thin silver-gray lines ripple vertically across a pale yellow background. Off-white margins frame the top and bottom edges. The composition is split into two distinct color fields, each containing fluid, organic patterns.

Bough and Cradle Falls (Process Print 2)

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 2023.208.4
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The artist chose a thin Japanese Akatosashi paper for this print specifically for 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.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.208.4