The Big Sky, or Marshes
ca. 1912
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Color woodcut
Dimensions
Image: 2 3/16 × 3 7/8 in. (5.5 × 9.9 cm) Sheet: 2 15/16 × 4 5/8 in. (7.5 × 11.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Dowd-Gallogly Family and Allan E. Dowd, 2016
Accession Number
2016.422
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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...