Untitled (Jug with Flowers and Leaves)
1901 to 1925
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woodcut
Dimensions
sheet: 371 x 280 mm
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
2008.115.1497
Art Historical Context
Behold Alexander Dobkin's *Untitled (Jug with Flowers Leaves)*, a delicate woodcut print from the 20th century, sometime between 1901 and 1925. Measuring 371 x 280 mm on its, this intimate still life captures a simple jug brimming with flowers and leaves, rendered in the bold, tactile lines characteristic of woodcut technique. As a relief print, the image emerges from a carved wooden block inked and pressed onto paper, emphasizing texture and form through positive and negative space—a method with roots in ancient Chinese and Japanese traditions but revitalized in modern Western printmaking. D...