Nabby's Point
ca. 1913
Medium
Color woodcut; trial proof on cream paper
Dimensions
Image: 2 5/16 × 3 15/16 in. (5.9 × 10 cm) Sheet: 3 in. × 4 7/8 in. (7.6 × 12.4 cm)
Classification
Woodcut, print
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Dowd-Gallogly Family and Allan E. Dowd, 2016
Accession Number
2016.406.6
Tags
Art Historical Context
Arthur Wesley Dow’s *Nabby’s Point* (ca. 1913) captures a tranquil landscape in a compact color woodcut. Measuring just over two by four inches, the print presents a quiet view dominated by trees, rendered with the artist’s characteristic sensitivity to line and tonal harmony. As a trial proof printed on cream paper, it offers a glimpse into Dow’s careful working process. Dow, an influential American artist and educator, helped introduce Japanese woodblock techniques to the United States in the early twentieth century. By carving and printing multiple blocks for color, he achieved luminous ef...
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...