The Color Woodcut in America 1895 - Hearst Art Gallery October 24 - December 15, 1984
Moraga, California: St. Mary's College, 1984. Pictorial wraps. 4to., 15 pages, cover: Frances Gearhart, "An Abyss Between". An Exhibition Catalog illustrated in black & white. Very good +. Item #9621
"This exhibition surveys a phase of American art history that has received little attention until very recently--the flowering of the color woodcut medium during the early twentieth century. With growing numbers of contemporary printmakers again working in this medium, and a strong general interest in "japonisme" and the Arts and Crafts movement, the time seems right to draw renewed attention to these works. Although most of them may appear rather tame and decorative from today's point of view, they represent some of the earliest modernist impulses in this country. The flattening of the picture plane and simplification of forms are indicative of the move away from what Arthur Wesley Dow called "the nature-imitators." The American color woodcut artists were conscious of international developments in art, many of them having studied in Europe (and some in Japan). These developments affected the style of the woodcuts to varying degrees".-preface.
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