Ipswich Town, or Harbor Scene
ca. 1893–95
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Color woodcut on paper stained green
Dimensions
image: 5 x 2 1/4 in. (12.7 x 5.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. W. L. Putnam, 1942
Accession Number
42.54.1
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Art Historical Context
Arthur Wesley Dow's *Ipswich Town, or Harbor Scene (ca. 1893–95) captures the serene charm of Ipswich, Massachusetts—a coastal town for its rivers and harbors—in a compact color woodcut measuring just 5 x 2¼ inches. Printed on paper stained green, this intimate work evokes the lush, tidal landscapes of New England, blending towns and waterways in a harmonious composition. Dow, an American artist and educator pivotal to the Arts and Crafts movement, drew inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, which he championed in the United States during the late 19th century. As one of Dow's early experi...
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...