View of Ipswich, or A Bend in the River
ca. 1895
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Color woodcut
Dimensions
image: 5 x 2 5/16 in. (12.7 x 5.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. W. L. Putnam, 1942
Accession Number
42.54.3
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About this artwork
This color woodcut work by Arthur Wesley Dow, titled 'View of Ipswich, or A Bend in the River' and created ca. 1895, represents an important example of artistic production from this period. Arthur Wesley Dow's practice contributed to the broader artistic traditions of the time, demonstrating the technical skills and aesthetic sensibilities characteristic of Drawings and Prints artworks in museum collections. The piece reflects the cultural and artistic values of its era, serving as a document of...
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...