Woodland Ledge
1960
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black
Dimensions
image: 21.11 × 30.48 cm (8 5/16 × 12 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1500
Art Historical Context
Stow Wengenroth’s 1960 lithograph *Woodland Ledge* invites viewers into a quiet corner of nature rendered entirely in black ink. Created at a time when American printmakers were exploring the expressive possibilities of lithography, the work demonstrates the medium’s ability to capture subtle tonal gradations and crisp textures on stone. The modest size—roughly eight by twelve inches—encourages intimate viewing, allowing the eye to linger on the interplay of light and shadow across rocky forms and foliage. As a lithograph printed in a single color, *Woodland Ledge* highlights the artist’s ski...
About the Artist
Stow Wengenroth
Stow Wengenroth (1906–1978) was an American lithographer celebrated for his meticulously detailed prints of New England coastal towns, lighthouses, harbors, and rural landscapes. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at the Art Students League under George Bridgman and Wayman Adams, and later with the printmaker George Miller, who taught him the techniques of lithography that would become his pri...