Long Island Marshes
1953
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lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 23.81 × 40.16 cm (9 3/8 × 15 13/16 in.) sheet: 33.34 × 47.63 cm (13 1/8 × 18 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1466
Art Historical Context
Stow Wengenroth’s 1953 lithograph *Long Island Marshes* captures the quiet expanse of coastal wetlands with remarkable tonal subtlety. Working in black ink on wove paper, the artist exploits lithography’s capacity for velvety gradations and crisp detail, allowing the viewer to sense both the reflective water and the dense, windswept grasses. The generous horizontal format—roughly nine by sixteen inches in the image—invites the eye to travel slowly across the marsh, evoking the stillness of a late-autumn afternoon. Wengenroth, a leading American printmaker of the mid-twentieth century, helped ...
About the Artist
Stow Wengenroth
Stow Wengenroth (1906–1978) was an American lithographer celebrated for his meticulously detailed prints of New England coastal towns, lighthouses, harbors, and rural landscapes. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at the Art Students League under George Bridgman and Wayman Adams, and later with the printmaker George Miller, who taught him the techniques of lithography that would become his pri...