The Evening Star
c. 1910
Medium
wood engraving
Dimensions
plate: 12.38 × 18.73 cm (4 7/8 × 7 3/8 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
2008.115.5110
Art Historical Context
Henry Wolf's *The Evening Star*, created around 1910, captures the poetic allure of twilight in a finely detailed wood engraving. This intimate print, measuring just 12.38 × 18.73 cm (4 7/8 × 7 3/8 in.), invites viewers to contemplate the serene beauty of the evening sky, the title evoking the bright gleam of Venus as it heralds dusk. Wolf, a master of the medium, exemplifies the precision possible in early 20th printmaking, bridging the 19th-century tradition of illustrative engraving with modern artistic sensibilities. Wood engraving, executed on the dense end-grain of boxwood, allowed for ...