Haystacks, Ipswich
Arthur Wesley Dow
c. 1894
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
image: 12.1 x 17.2 cm (4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 15.6 x 20.8 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Diana and Mallory Walker Fund
Accession Number
2003.117.1
About the Artist
Arthur Wesley Dow · 1857–1922
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857–1922) was an American artist, printmaker, and educator whose ideas about composition and design exerted an outsized influence on American modernism, reaching well beyond anything his own paintings and prints might have achieved on their own. Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, he studied in Boston and then in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he absorbed the academic training...