Sultry Day
1935, published 1937
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woodcut
Dimensions
image: 20.32 × 15.24 cm (8 × 6 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.5275
Art Historical Context
**Sultry Day** by Paul Landacre captures the languid heat of a summer afternoon in a masterful 1935 woodcut, published in 1937 This intimate print, measuring just 8 × 6 inches, exemplifies Landacre's reputation as one of America's premier wood engr during the Great Depression era. Working with exquisite precision despite partial blindness, he transformed blocks of wood into evocative scenes, often drawing from California's natural landscapes to evoke mood and atmosphere. The woodcut medium shines here through Landacre's technique of carving away negative space to leave raised lines that hold ...