Marsh Creek
Arthur Wesley Dow
c. 1914
Medium
color woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 10.9 × 17.7 cm (4 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 13.4 × 20.1 cm (5 1/4 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2021.16.1
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...