The Edge of the Desert
Medium
Etching on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 17.4 × 12.5 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.9 × 23.4 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
93608
Art Historical Context
**The Edge of the Desert** *Wallace L. DeWolf, 1920* *Etching on cream wove paper* *Image/plate: 17.4 × 12.5 cm; Sheet: 30.9 × 23.4 cm* *Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings Department* Step into the vast, sun-bleached expanses evoked by Wallace L. DeWolf's *The Edge of the Desert* (1920), a captivating etching housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings collection. Created in the early post-World War I era, this intimate print (just under 7 by 5 inches) draws viewers to the threshold of arid wilderness, where subtle lines suggest shifting sands and distant h...