The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

Houses

Houses

c. 1936
(American, 1903–1984)
America, 20th century
color woodcut
Sheet: 33.7 x 43.7 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/16 in.); Image: 23.5 x 35 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.366
© Mabel A. Hewit
Location: not on view

Description

Before a woodblock can be carved, the board is usually planed, scraped, and possibly sanded to make it smooth. The surface is not always prepared properly, however, and in Houses the shallow, evenly spaced, parallel vertical ripple marks made in the wood by a machine planer transferred to the paper upon printing and are particularly evident in the sky.
  • Collection of the artist
  • Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 228): April 15, 2013 - August 12, 2013.
    Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 24, 2010).
  • {{cite web|title=Houses|url=false|author=Mabel A. Hewit|year=c. 1936|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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