"The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"
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Color woodcut
Dimensions
Image: 5 9/16 × 3 7/8 in. (14.1 × 9.8 cm) Sheet: 6 13/16 × 4 15/16 in. (17.3 × 12.5 cm)
Classification
Woodcut, print
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Morse Family Foundation Fund, 2016
Accession Number
2016.427
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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...