Dragon and Orchard
Medium
color woodcut
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift from funds of various donors to the Department of Prints and Drawings
Accession Number
2000.1
Tags
About this artwork
In his dual roles as artist and teacher, Dow was instrumental in reviving the color woodcut in America at the turn of the 20th century. Impressed by the flat, simplified compositions of Japanese color woodcuts, or ukiyo-e prints, Dow abandoned Western naturalism, with its linear modeling and one-point perspective, in favor of the basic elements of Japanese design: line, form, color, and notan—the harmonious arrangement of dark and light. Although in Japan the artist only executed the drawing—the...